Nayyera Haq: Van Hollen Visiting Abrego Garcia in El Salvador ‘Made Me Feel Better’ in Case I Get Disappeared

‘I can tell you we‘re certainly feeling, around the state, this enthusiasm that someone in power is actually trying to do something to check the imbalance in power we have right now’

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HAQ: "Well, what it does is that it gets the attention of a group of people right now who feel like they are leaderless, right? So there is a large swath of the country that is Democrat. There‘s a large swath that is uncommitted. 90 million people did not vote. They are all at this moment waiting for somebody to directly challenge individual actions of Trump. Doesn‘t mean you need to be the next president, candidate of the United States, but this idea that if you have power right now, this is an opportunity to step up and do something about it. So, yes, going directly to El Salvador, making sure that he laid eyes on a resident, someone who's constituent, frankly made me feel better, that if I get disappeared, somebody is going to try to find me and figure out if I‘m okay."

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