Protesters march on the National Mall for wrongly deported Maryland man

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Just two weeks after tens of thousands of people gathered across the United States on Saturday to rally against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, protesters have come together again.

This time, Vice President JD Vance and the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia are their focus.

At 1:00 p.m., protesters rallied at the Washington Monument against the administration's treatment of a Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man at the center of a deportation battle.

Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland husband and father, was mistakenly deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

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"It’s ridiculous," Sami Prudencio, a protester outside the White House, told 7News:

The Supreme Court has told Trump to do something, and he refuses to do anything about it. It’s checks and balances being eroded.

Before that, protestors lined up outside Vance's residence at the Naval Observatory at noon on Saturday to protest the Trump administration.

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Both of Saturday's protests came one day after Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen returned from a trip to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia:

“He did not know about what was happening in the outside world," Van Hollen said in a press conference Friday. "If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights and due process for everyone in America.”

President Trump responded to Van Hollen's visit by calling Abrego Garcia a "violent person":

This man is, according to certified statements that we get, is a very violent person. And they want this man to be brought back into our country where he can be free and to stay as a happily--you know, happily, they call him the Maryland man, he's a Maryland father, no, this is a violent person.

Earlier this month, the group's rally at the National Mall was permitted for 10,000 people, drawing visitors from around the world.

Participants expressed concerns about changes affecting federal workers, education, healthcare, veterans' services, and military leadership. There were 1,200 rallies held nationwide.