Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Thursday he was denied entry to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador when he tried to check on the “health and wellbeing” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he was denied entry into the El Salvador prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the United States will not return a wrongly deported Maryland man, Kilmar Ábrego García, as Sen. Chris Van Hollen was denied a visit with his constituent in an El