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I urge you to read this, get angry, and then write or call your Democratic House representatives and demand that they DO NOT allow this matter to be "slowed down." It shows the weakness of the Minority Leader. We, the People, should make that known to our House representatives. HOUSE MINORITY LEADER Hakeem Jeffries was asked Monday whether Democrats should continue to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the other men wrongly shipped to El Salvador by making the trip to the country to put a spotlight on the issue. “Our reaction is that Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern American history,” Jeffries responded. But while Jeffries may be publicly agnostic on El Salvador trips like the one Reps. Robert Garcia, Yassamin Ansari, Maxwell Frost, and Maxine Dexter recently took, privately, he sees the trips as having run their course. Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker who spoke to The Bulwark said that the minority leader has discouraged further excursions to the country even as pressure mounts within the party to turn up the heat on Trump for sending 238 men to a notorious prison system known for human rights abuses. “They want to let the El Salvador stuff slow down,” a senior House staffer said. Jeffries’s office declined to comment. The debate among Democrats over how aggressively they should engage the issue of mass deportations, and the use of El Salvador’s prison specifically, has been simmering for weeks now. And Jeffries’s eagerness to sidestep it suggests that the party is far from a consensus. While leadership may be more eager to talk about the economy, other Democrats say that there is a moral obligation to spotlight cases like that of Abrego Garcia. And they believe the politics are already turning in their favor.