The House Oversight Committee chairman has denied requests by two Democrats to check on a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, though the GOP has sent its own delegations to tour the notorious prison he is at.

But Salvadoran President Bukele says Kilmar Ábrego García - who is at the centre of a US court battle - will stay in custody.

With the president defying the Supreme Court’s orders and questions swirling about what’s next for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, at least one senator says he is headed to El Salvador.