Senator Chris Van Hollen goes to El Salvador to speak with deported MS13 gang member, Kilmar Garcia, and bring him back to the USA. Van Hollen didn’t speak to Garcia, and Van Hollen is not bringing him back.
Van Hollen did have a rather sketchy press conference. WATCH:
(El Salvador) – Sen. Chris Van Hollen made a pilgrimage to El Salvador Wednesday to demand the country release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the U.S. deported last month, saying he was “illegally abducted” from Maryland and must be sent back.
Mr. Van Hollen said he had hoped to meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia, who’s being held in a terrorist prison, but that didn’t happen. Instead he met with El Salvador’s vice president and made his plea, which he asked be passed on to President Nayib Bukele.
“I’m asking President Bukele, under his authority as president of El Salvador, to do the right thing and allow Mr. Abrego Garcia to walk out of a prison — a man who is charged with no crime, convicted of no crime, and was illegally abducted from the United States,” Mr. Van Hollen said. (more)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as.
According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt,… pic.twitter.com/FpSV0k3i90
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 16, 2025
I read earlier that some unnamed Republicans went as well anyone here?
If true, that would very close to career suicide
Unfortunately, van hollen is not up until 2028 although I think the voters in merryland are too ignorant to vote him out.
You are so correct. They just swallow Govt. propaganda hook, line and sinker.
hook line and stinker
I pass over a bridge daily that has had around 6-8 foreign fishermen on it for years until recently. That part of his voting base may have returned home.
Bush, Clinton, Dubya, and 0’Bama are the four horsemen of America’s globalization apocalypse.
Bush, Clinton, Dubya, and 0’Bama are the four
horsemenhorse’s asses of America’s globalization apocalypse.What does “secure elections” entail?
That’s nice, so far as it lasts. Tee up a ‘rat judge to issue an injunction or TRO to stop this claiming as the ‘rats like to say “disenfranchisement”. EO on hold and so is election integrity.
Has FJB (Feral Judge BoA$$berg) blocked it yet?
No… Biasberg is busy issuing injunctions for:
The sun to stop setting ☀️
The tides to stop rising 🌊
The stars to stop shining ✨
The wind to stop blowing 🌬
The Earth to stop spinning 🌏
And a special TRO to suspend the law of gravity –
Biasberg says it discriminates against material beings.
I have beach friends from Maryland, they are only here for 3 months. I know, kick them to the curb, however, it’s cheap entertainment and keeps me abreast of TDS.
Never underestimate the depravity of Merrieland communists.
There are plenty more where this fool came from.
P.G., Baltimore and Montgomery?
He’s fighting for his future constituents because after all these years, illegals are the only people who will vote for him. Simple.
He has made an utter and complete fool of himself. I hope people are mocking him all across the country.
You have to ask yourself why is this particular MS 13 member so so important to the Dems? Seth Rich connection?
The Democratic Party is nothing more than a total clown show now. Their main agenda is supporting illegal criminals, preserving institutional grift and fraud, and polluting the environment by destroying “green” objects they feel are on the wrong end of the political spectrum.
Who cares if Garcia can be proven to be a gang member or proven to have committed specific crimes. He broke federal law by being here illegally and has had at least known criminal complaints. That’s more than enough to deport him and he’s not a US citizen so the Congress Clown’s beef is really with El Salvador.
Why didn’t the congressman bring along the man’s wife and kids?
Maybe because they refused to go as they don’t ever want him back?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/alleged-ms-13-member-kilmar-abrego-garcia-who-was-deported-by-trump-admin-accused-of-physically-abusing-wife-in-2021/
Because she filed for a protection from abuse order?
What a total idiot – where does the Left find these people?
“I blame the unforgiving hateful leftist attitudes on their public school and university influences.
They have been brainwashed to not believe anything but what their teachers and professors told them too.”
Chris Van Hollan,
Well played!
Did he stand outside the prison fence with a tear rolling down his cheek like AOC?
No but he did say he wanted to bring Garcia “home” not realizing that he was visiting Garcia at his home.
We have these charades played by corrupt politicians because none of the politicians or liberals are ever prosecuted or held accountable for their crimes.
Why hasn’t Joe Biden and Mayorkas been rounded up and prosecuted for purposely and willingly allowing 20 million criminals to freely enter our country?
They broke every oath they swore to uphold.
We have the proof they were using NGO’s as an off the books tool to facilitate the invasion and using USAID taxpayer money as well as FEMA to facilitate this massive crime.
Until these criminals are arrested and charged for their crimes the they’ll continue to do the same things.
Marxists own each end of the apparatus. Trump is in the middle. When they flex it overrides the center, creating frustration and hatred of “useless” Rs. We are speed bumps to the Marxists, not a threat. We would require 3-branch control for years before coming close to removing their grasp on America.
And you must purge education of them or they’ll be right back in the next batch.
Your hypothesis is logical.
Because if AG Blondi isn’t getting make-upped for an appearance on Fox News, she’s looking for binders. That’s my $.02.
Our tax dollars just flew to El Salvador for a media stunt. By the end of the journey, all of our hard-earned money disappeared.
I wish that they (El Salvador) would have put Kilmar Garcia on Van Hollen’s plane (uncuffed and unchained), and let Van Hollen enjoy that flight back…and then upon their arrival have federal agents arrest Van Hollen (and is staff) for facilitating, harboring, an entering an illegal alien with MS13 gang affiliation…cuff them all and perp walk them to awaiting vehicles for jail detention pending trial.
That right there would be pay-per-view material.
The administration of my President Trump just brought a tactical nuke to a gunfight.
Take that you lawfare cockroaches.
Chris Van Hollan:
This poor moron is obviously not up to speed. May the Lord of all justice, discernment and reflection show him the error of this visit and strike him mute.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14619675/white-house-violent-past-maryland-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia.html
I hope the President makes them pay for the trip out of their own pockets , US Congressman do not represent Illegal gang members !
This jack ass is a mule. He will be coming back to the USA with a full load up where the sun does not shine.
I am sick of this crap.
The Senate should sanction him for illegal behavior & not supporting his constituents.
I still think that these rogue inferior court judges making these unconstitutional rulings have been “gotten” by the gangs, TdA & MS-13 with lethal threats if they don’t work to free their members, their ilk, & all illegals. Perphaps also Senator Van Hollen has also been threatened if doesn’t try to brick Kilmore back.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if Bukele told Von Hollen, go visit the guy you consider your constituent. He’s in this prison. We’ll be back for you in 3 days.
Wow, everything he said was a lie but he, as a normal Democrat, says Trump is the liar…and he thinks Trump would speak to him? Maybe Trump should have him charged with interfering with public policy and possibly treason…
The delusional loser think HE is president.
He was born in Pakistan…..
First a Representative in Maryland from 2003 to 2017 and now a Senator since 2017.
Is he a LEGAL American citizen ?
More interesting is that his mother was CIA
This nut job should’ve been shackled into the shape of a question mark in his underwear. Then had his head shaved. How embarrassing for our country
Always good to see Democrats proving that they care more about a criminal illegal alien in a foreign prison than they care about American citizens.
The members of this party and their voters are a cult.
this guy must have been a ballot harvester or he has some blackmail on someone. they’re spending a lot of attention to him
maybe cia asset
He is 2nd generation State Department.
And Mommy was CIA
State/CIA. Same difference.
The guy is not only a proven MS-13 member but a spousal abuser, whom his wife has called the police on at least once.
I heard there were 2 orders of protection/requests…one also in 2020 as well as 2021.
Say no to Van Hollen
Say yes to Van Halen
=VH=
Van Hollen. Born in Karachi, Pakistan. That sounds about right.
As soon as he is back on american soil, deport him to his home country. He doesn’t deserve to live here.
The level of embarrassment is cringe worthy. Good grief.
The world sees the insanity of these people.
Poor Hollywood Schiff didn’t get the role.
He must be devastated.
Next cut off weapons and money to Ukraine.
Then encourage Van Hollen to make a personal trip to the front lines in Ukraine to provide weapons and money himself.
Provide his coordinates to the Russians.
The Democrat attention whores are crawling out of the woodwork. Van Hollen knew before he went
on vacationto El Salvador that he didn’t have a snowball’s chance to bring Killmore Garcia back with him. He was broadcasting selfies the entire trip. Everyone on the left is jockeying for a “leadership” position on the Titanic.Known as, Democratic Campaigning…
I hope they all get it and go down with the ship.
The Democrats did all they could to bury this MS-13 gang initiation, torture, mutilation, and murder of 3 Black college kids (4th somehow survived) at the time because they did not want the Black community in Newark NJ to see what their Democrat party policies of shipping in illegal immigrants does to the Black community, murder them. At the time this was headed for a full on race war. Further proof the old KKK Democrats are going to discard Black Americans (they already discarded the White Americans) for their new voting bloc.
“An immigrant of Nicaragua and alleged leader of MS-13, a violent Central American street gang operating in Newark, Godinez was the first defendant to be convicted. He was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences in July 2010 for his role in the attack and to 20 years for the attempted murder of Natasha Aeriel. In total, Judge Ravin sentenced Godinez to 245 years. His earliest parole will be in 216 years.”
Final Schoolyard Murder Defendant Sentenced to 195 Years
https://njecpo.org/final-schoolyard-murder-defendant-sentenced-to-195-years-2/
Corey Booker’s old mayoral stomping grounds. Typical.
If you listen to the Democrats, this guy is a cross between Ward Cleaver and Ozzie Nelson.
Garcia is the new Floyd!
This story keeps reminding me of Khashoggi-mania where the corporate media and our elected officials can’t stop obsessing over some foreign scumbag that vast majority of America doesn’t care about.
He was an illegal alien. Period. Everything else is noise.
Hopefully this marks the political end of Van Hollen.
Which makes me wonder…is someone paying her to get in front of a camera and cry about how much she wants and needs him home? Also, IF he is returned home and goes on to murder his “wife”, as sometimes happens with wife beaters and gang members, will they still defend him so vociferously.
You know, given the screwy positions they take, they probably would defend him.
Yes.
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Who?
It’s quite bizarre to watch all the anti-Trump crowd going to battle to defend ….. criminals who entered the US illegally? How do they imagine THAT is going to be a winner for them politically?
Even by the Dems standards, this see like incredibly dumb behavior.
Distraction brought to you by the Intel parasites. Filtered through street stunts by DNC.
Not one of these aholes worried about due process for the J6ers!
Not one of these ***** lifted so much as a sigh to help the storm ravaged Carolina, Fl and TN victims. They can all rot in hell!
Satan 👿:
“um… God, do I HAVE to take these souls??? They barely count as human!
Think of my reputation!”
The Almighty:
“Yes, you do… when you preferred to reign in hell… I never promised you a rose garden – now git!!
And take all these execrable lost souls with you! May they add to your torment 🔥 for Eternity!”
This whole thing is a set up leading to something else.
Do these idiots understand just how dangerous the MS13 gang is? Perhaps they simply don’t care. They just want to see their faces on the news. My, what weird times we continue to live in. Fingers crossed, Bondi will start arresting all the evil-doers Elon is discovering.
What does MS stand for in ms13?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13
Read Wikipedia’s political discourse at the bottom of the MS13 article . Liberal bias is strong .
I just sent in my inflated tax check to the communist state of Maryland and this tool jets off to El Salvador for a PR stunt.
How many women voters will be approving of this action by these two Senators… Van Hollen and Cory Booker will be campaigning for office by supporting terrorists and wife beaters?
Maybe we should rethink the qualifications to run for election, these irresponsible supporters of Kilmar Abrego Garcia have totally lost their reasonable thinking…surely we dont want them attempting to run our government!!!
This is almost as bad as Taylor Lorenz(media) calling Luigi Mangione a ‘morally good’ man.
The Globalist Sheep do not care what the Globalist do or say as long as it it Anti-Trump.
Apparently, Bukele was never deceived . . . He damned well knows a “terrorist” when he sees one, and he’s not playing games.
Senior Senator, I have a note here from your American embassy asking you to report to them and surrender your passport. What does it mean this “Logan Act Violation?”
sending deportees, not convicted of crimes beyond illegal entry, to indeterminate (but long) prison sentences is not deportation. it looks more like the extraordinary renditions of the gw bush and obama era. this should not be part of maga. rule of law is crucial. don’t make the democrats’ job any easier than it should be.
He’s a citizen of
El Salvador 🇸🇻
He’s now in El Salvador.
If the President of
El Salvador,
Nayib Bukele,
Wanted to either pardon this man,
Or commute his sentence, I would think that would be President Bukele’s prerogative.
Seek to convince President Bukele to release this man.
President Bukele appears to be an intelligent, thoughtful,
And honest man.
Make your case to him.
El Salvador is a sovereign country, and its citizens are subject to its laws.
If there are people who feel
Soooooo strongly about this…
Have them seek to avail themselves of the criminal justice system in El Savador.
Start the legal process there.
This man was not in the US legally.
Let his own nation determine what happens to him.
Bravo.
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