Politics

Scoop: Another House Democrat seeks to go to El Salvador

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) is the latest Democratic trying to organize an official congressional delegation to El Salvador, Axios has learned.Why it matters: There is a flood of interest among Democratic lawmakers to travel to the central American country, where the Trump administration has been sending deportees to a maximum security prison.Ramirez, in a letter to House Homeland Security Committee chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) first obtained by Axios, requested he authorize an official CODEL to El Salvador.

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) is the latest Democratic trying to organize an official congressional delegation to El Salvador, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: There is a flood of interest among Democratic lawmakers to travel to the central American country, where the Trump administration has been sending deportees to a maximum security prison.Ramirez, in a letter to House Homeland Security Committee chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) first obtained by Axios, requested he authorize an official CODEL to El Salvador.

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