Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen revealed that Kilmar Ábrego García had been moved from El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison – where he was sharing a cell with 25 other inmates – to a detention center with better conditions.
Van Hollen met with Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported, and said that he had been left “traumatized” after facing threats in the Cecot facility.
It’s hard to overstate how much more impactful a single story can be to public opinion. If the media were to just start running story after story of immigrants being deported, the message would absolutely get muddied. By keeping the focus on this one case, this case maintains political momentum.
but I fear that now that we know he’s alive, the momentum will disappear, and everyone else will be forgotten