Comer Denies Democrats’ Request To Send Delegation To El Salvador After Sending Seven House Republicans

Axios reports:

Another House Republican committee chair said Friday he will not grant Democrats’ request to lead a congressional delegation to El Salvador to check on the status of deportees being held there. Republicans sent their own official delegation to the country this week to visit the notorious maximum security prison housing deportees and express their support for President Trump’s deportation policies.

At least seven House Republicans were present on the trip, according to a photo by the U.S. embassy in El Salvador. House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a letter released Friday that he won’t let Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) lead their own. Citing the two Democrats’ “active hostility” to his investigations of the Biden’s border policies, Comer called the request “absurd.”

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El #EmbajadorDuncan dio ayer la bienvenida a El Salvador a la delegación encabezada por el Congresista Jason Smith, quien visita el país para fortalecer los lazos bilaterales y dialogar sobre iniciativas que promueven el desarrollo económico y la cooperación mutua. pic.twitter.com/Zj0o8OSiOJ

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