Two House Democrats sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., on Tuesday requesting approval for an official congressional delegation, or CODEL, to visit the prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration is sending some deportees, Axios reported.

In the letter, Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., said a delegation would allow Democrats to “conduct a welfare check” on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador national who’s being held at Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the maximum-security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia, who the administration says is an MS-13 gang member, was sent to El Salvador due to an “administrative error.” However, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bring him back, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Monday the idea is “preposterous.”

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