Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., on Friday denied the request of two House Democrats who wanted approval for an official congressional delegation, or CODEL, to visit the prison in El Salvador where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held.

Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, called the request “absurd.”

In a letter to Comer earlier this week, Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., said a delegation would allow Democrats to “conduct a welfare check” on Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was deported in March by the Trump administration, which maintains that he is a gang member.

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