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Democrats’ efforts to land on a winning message against President Donald Trump have led the party to consider how fully to embrace a new,
politically complex cause: pressuring the administration to follow a
Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The party has uniformly spoken in support of Abrego Garcia’s right to
due process after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month.
But some have expressed concern in recent days over how it has conveyed
the nuances of their argument that a violation of one person’s due
process rights – regardless of their personal backstory or legal status
– threatens everyone in the US. And as Democrats look to take back power
in Washington, starting with next year’s midterm elections, how that
message is received by voters matters.

Democrats who’ve urged a different approach say they worry that the
party isn’t doing enough to broaden the due process argument beyond
Abrego Garcia’s case. Others have argued it’s a “distraction” from more politically salient messages on the economy that shifts the conversation
to immigration, where Trump holds an advantage with voters.

In an aggressive push to keep the issue alive and raise pressure on the administration, Democratic lawmakers – including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and a quartet of House progressives – recently traveled to El
Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia, who has been held in Salvadoran prisons
since his deportation last month, and pushed for his release. They join
others who have rejected the counter argument from members of their own
party, who say the due process argument comes with political risks.

“We as Democrats should fight for due process not because it polls well,
not because it’s been focus grouped, but because fighting for due
process is the right thing to do,” Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York
Democrat, said in an interview.

Under legislation Torres introduced last month, the US government would
be required to punish foreign countries if they don’t return migrants
who a court has ruled were improperly deported.

On Monday, Democratic Reps. Maxwell Frost of Florida, Robert Garcia of California, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Maxine Dexter of Oregon
arrived in El Salvador to, as they put it, “bring attention to President Trump’s illegal defiance of the binding and unanimous Supreme Court decision.”

At a press conference there, Frost said he was in El Salvador because
he’d received “hundreds and hundreds of calls” and emails from his constituents.

“I represent a lot of immigrants. I represent a lot of people who see themselves represented in this situation,” Frost said later in an
interview with Fox News on Monday. “They’re saying, ‘Congressman, do
what you can now because it’s him today, and it can be one of us tomorrow.’”

Clear agendas
Republicans have been quick to frame Democrats’ defense of Abrego
Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national and Maryland resident who
entered the country illegally over a decade ago, as a sign the Democrats
are more committed to protecting migrants than American citizens.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/politics/democrats-abrego-garcia-case-due- process-argument-voters/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

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