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 did not know this, but how Bukele cleaned up El Salvador was by getting rid of Radical Judges. Mayve PDJT will study his playbook.
I know this is unrelated, but would we expect a go-fund-me for this MS-13 dude like the H.S. track star murderer?
Shouldn’t it be illegal to raise money and spend it on personal items (car, house, etc.) if you have pending criminal charges?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-track-meet-killers-family-tap-400k-support-fund-new-home
that would just be hiding the absurdity of the idiot democrats. let em go.
Just remember that there’s a two-tiered justice system and it makes sense.
NOW THAT WE ARE IN POWER, our side needs to replace terrorist-supporting news media with media that supports America and Americans. Cut off their access to taxpayer $$$, and load them up with audits, investigations, and inspections by the DOJ, IRS, SEC, FCC, DOL, ICC, etc… Within months they will either begin reporting in a way that is America/American-friendly, or relocate to another country, or shut down.
Over the past 8 years, Americans have removed Democrats from control of the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the White House. The GOP/MAGA can stop complaining and whining from a powerless position. WE ARE NOW IN CONTROL and NEED TO ACT LIKE IT.
I saw there is one. This stuff is insane.
ACT BLUE is paying for it all through their multi faceted laundering scheme.
Another indictment need.
Why is a knowingly unrelated comment on here? Could it be part of the op Dom Lucre points out? “BREAKING: It has been revealed that Karmelo Anthony Has Not Withdrawn Cash From GiveSendGo Fundraiser and that the $800k house was leased for $3,750 by the family in 2022.” Not saying that the guy is innocent, but that someone is trying to fan flames here.
https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1912597197415440590
I always thought people who have committed a crime can not go begging for money. I hope all those involved here get their azzes sued.
I think that’s on GoFundMe. This is GiveSendGo.
Well, their son is about to spend a very long time in a Texas prison, so the parents have to get something out of it, since he’s not going to be bringing home the bacon for being on a Wheaties box for his track & field efforts any time soon. Why waste it on lawyers?
He has to ask Trump ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Too funny and just what he deserves.
Absolutely hilarious! What a putz. Guessing that “Have to ask Trump” won’t get much media traction
Apparently this schmuck van Hollen missed Presidents Trump and Bukele in the White House where the El Salvador President said quite emphatically that he would NOT be returning the “Maryland father”…
Operation Mockingbird Media turns a MS-13 gang initiation,torture,mutilation, murder of 3 Black College kids into “gun violence” hiding the Democrats/Uniparty Rino’s open borders/mass immigration treasonous policies that kill Americans.
Film to probe Newark schoolyard murders’ toll on family
https://www.trentonian.com/2015/04/26/film-to-probe-newark-schoolyard-murders-toll-on-family/
What a maroon!
Bizarro world 🌎
I’m afraid even the Babylon Bee 🐝
Can’t keep up
You know how some products have warning labels 🏷:
“Keep away from children”? 👧 👦
Elective office needs the same warning:
“Keep away from Democrats”
Apparently, there’s a new species of homo now. Maryland Man!
A non-gang-member fearing rival gang repercussions, donchaknow
homo? that was highly insensitive. hahahahahahah….
Dang, the senator gets to meet with the Vice President. This is just getting sad at this point.
ON MY DIME….
exactly.i want my money back.he wanted to go there he should have paid for it out of his own pocket.
Bondi on Hannity savaging Van Hollen for his pathetic remodeling of history by rehabbing the known facts RE: A “Maryland man” who was a *non-member* fearing repercussions of a rival gang….BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Would that count as Fox appearance #77 by Bondi? I’ve lost count.
Depends. You keeping count by the day, week, or month here?
Blame Fox News and Hannity
And said Garcia was abducted. Van Hallen is just full of lies. Typical for a democrat.
These people believe an illegal invader into this country is unlawfully detained and deported is wrong is amazing.
This should show every single American what most politicians think about you and your family and its safety.
How many laws did this dirtbag communist break going down there and attempting his bringing illegal back into the country
You speak sanity or use something that’s not so common anymore…commonsense.
What’s worse is the leftist activist judges, doing what the politicians can’t get done. Why in the world are our feckless Republican Senators confirming activist judges? It is time WE out-primary all of them up for re-election in 2026 like Tillis, Cornyn, Collins, Graham, etc. And is Mitch retiring for sure?
i imagined the president of san salvador answering van nutjob about having a phone call with garcia in prison. then i thought of consuela the maid on family guy. no. ..no,no .
Democrats should just say they’re the party of the invader. Get it over with.
they are the pervert party.
The dysphoria party.
“a pilgrimage” #delusional
I wish President Bukele arrested Van Hollen for instigation and put him in the prison with the MS-13 members. It would serve the blowhard his just desserts.
If only…
Logan Act.
That CODEL should be ushered to the VIP wing of the jail and have the door slammed behind them. Not sure the idiot congressional emissaries have much sense. Dangerous, all sorts of things could go wrong.
It’s apparently too much to ask that Democrats visit angel moms, tour towns devastated by toxic train derailments or stand in the breach to protect women’s safe spaces. No, their virtue-signaling only has room for illegal alien gangbangers who’ve been sent back to the countries of their birth. I suppose that keying Teslas in your spare time takes a lot of energy out of a person and you have to conserve your spare time for the “greater good,” whatever NPR claims that to be on any given day.
The Republicans may be gutless and feckless, but the Democrats, as a party, are an existential threat to this country. At this point, I’d have to honestly say that it is impossible to love this country and be a Democrat. I would go so far as to even doubt how a person could claim to love God and support what the national Democrat party has become today. It is time to come out from among them.
J
I can hear VanNutjob now, “Hey Bukele, give me back my dimocRAT voter.”
notice the people/ideologies that ignore the sufferings of the masses? stalin. mao.
Excellent writing. Thank you.
Logan act violation?
How is this action not an act of treason or insubordination at the highest?
Vp met with the Senator?
No. Veep refused to see the putz.
Democrat Senator Van Hollen Travels to El Salvador for Presser and Photo Op and to record much needed footage for his next reelection campaign.
Van Hollen appears to be a graduate of the Chuckie Schumer “Never Miss An Opportunity To Stand In Front Of A Camera” School of Political Groveling.
Doing this as a political stunt is truly amazing to watch unfold. No words.
He needed his 15 minutes of fame because he was feeling neglected. He will be forgotten about in a few days.
Was Garcia an FBI informant? Why is Van Hollen doing something as abysmally stupid as this. There is NO upside, unless he is trying to protect something Biden/Obama was doing secretly.
because he’s a ####### idiot?
Yeah, it’s this.
I also wonder who’s water the illegal was carrying… and who is the politician obeying by jumping on a flight to ‘visit’ a deported illegal foreigner-gangbanger in a foreign – his home country – prison.
The politician thinks exposing himself/his loyalties this way is worth it… for what reason does he think that?
What did he get again for “holding out” as a House member when Obamacare was being jammed through? Concerned about abortion.
If only chris van hollen cared for Rachel Morin’s children and family as much as he cares for abrego garcia.
Five Maryland children have been permanently separated from their mother…count them FIVE…
Exactly. Rachel Morin’s children are forever separated from her and she from them by the hand of an illegal such as this–where is Van Hole-in-the Head’s compassion and advocacy for Rachel and her children or for anyone who has suffered at the hands of these illegal criminals?
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His father and mother were CIA. He was born in Pakistan and spent the majority of his childhood in the Middle East and Asia. Georgetown law school (of course), then Maryland legislature. And got into Congress via Dem redistricting shenanigans. The epitome of what is wrong with who is in Congress.
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i had hoped to see him with his hands behind his head bent over with two guards showing him the way. think trump would free him?
Dad was actually in the Foreign Service/diplomat but State Dept. is pretty much the Company anyway.
And we paid for this.
Today was a complete disaster for the democrats.
To me it looks like they were totally baited by President Trump…Big bait catches big rat…….
1st the trip by the MS13 loving senator……
2nd Order of protection News for 2 incidents….released that he was beating his wife on numerous occasions…..
3nd Bondie exposing more info on the El Salvador prisoner…MS13 all the way.
4th and best of all the 4:30 press conference. that stole the show…..
What’s the bet Cory Booker never takes that trip to El Salvador now… that he was hell bent on taking?
the creep will never mention it AGAIN….
the lefties will be backing away from this ASAP…
If Booker stays here……That’s is how we will measure the success of that press press conference.. they know it’s over!!
I think this was so bad…they may even have the judge back off….
I came home from work late tonight… while at work, everyone was talking about it…Dem and MAGA alike
no one could believe how they thought President Trump baited them.. and they ran with the hook…
I have not seen that since the Marbles Biden Trump debate…..
I would argue President Trump does not need to “bait’ then. they naturally hate America. They will always advocate for anything that is against the best interest of America and USA Americans.
.@PattyMorin on her senator, Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, going to El Salvador for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but showing not a care in the world for Rachel, a constituent of his, who was murdered:
“And to have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledge my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother, so he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen. Why does that person have more right than I do? Or my daughter? Or my grandchildren? I — I don’t understand this.”
This is a case of mass hysteria over the actions of one of the best US presidents in history. Dems are angry enough to get behind forced immigration into the United States by illegal aliens, regardless of their reasons, since the majority of citizens are perfectly happy to secure our border and to send illegal aliens who have NO RIGHT TO LIVE IN THE U.S. as if they are Americans. Dems are now officially deranged, as is Senator Van Hollen!
Who can even grasp the reasoning behind masses of deranged Democrats willfully fighting against the will of the president and of the MAJORITY of U.S. citizens?! Why are Democrats so unwilling to allow the president to do what he and U.S. citizens have mandated?!
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He is CHARGED by two immigration courts with being DEPORTABLE as he broke America’s laws.
I’ve a feeling the President of El Salvador will tell the senator he has committed crimes of being a gang member AND he is considered a terrorist in the US.
This asshole senator actually had the nerve to call him one of “the most vulnerable people” in the US.
Nobody is framing this person as “purely innocent”.
If everyone does not have due process, nobody has due process.
I am not surprised that a lot of people here are struggling with this.
What part of illegal alien don’t you understand?
It would seem some here are struggling with the fact that illegal aliens are not supposed to be here in the first place, our citizens have more rights than illegal invaders, etc etc.
Deportation of criminals (any illegal alien) is a pretty simple concept.
This guy appeared before TWO immigration courts, was found to be a MS-13 gang member, foubd to be here illegally & his wife filed for 2 protective orders against him for domestic violence in 2020 & 2021. How much due process is he missing?
Are you bothered by he hadn’t been convicted of a crime against an American? Do you think you just sign up to become a gang member? The MS-13 gang has been declared a terrorist organization. He’s a terrorist, here illegally with deportation orders. He beats his wife. He’s at best a dirt bag but probably much worse than that. HE’S NOT A U S. CITIZEN or a Marylander. HE’S NOW HOME WHERE HE BELONGS. He should have self-deported when he had the chance. Hindsight can be a real bitch.
… in 2016-2018 ‘they’ miss created a russia collusion narrative ad nauseum and overlooked truths – to reduce the popularity of a president- to keep future elections within winnable range for ‘they’ …
(and some believed the narrative due to the repetition, which was not verifiable truth).
whom is they?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/07/whos-they/
… in 2025 … ‘they’ review their pol play book … and …looking ahead to the future… ‘they’ …
hmmm….
These DEMons are expressing their wickedness on a next level showing.
More Democrats following – Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) asked House Oversight Committee chair James Comer in a letter according to Axios, to authorize a CODEL to El Salvador.
They cited the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
“A Congressional delegation would allow Committee Members to conduct a welfare check on Mr. Abrego Garcia, as well as others held at CECOT,” they wrote.
Thanks to idiot Repubs bad gerrymandering, Frost us now my rep. Previously it was Dan Webster. Republicans really are the party of stupid.
The FL GOP has the same problem as TX … Lots & lots of not-too-bright “Ds” in office as “Rs”. Atrocious.
He should tell them hell no – the American taxpayers aren’t funding their insanity.
Not the Onion?
Not the Bee?
What a fark’in pus*y.
If you look up “grandstanding” in the dictionary, this is what you will see.
Maryland resident, Patty Morin, the mother of Rachael Morin, at the request of Karoline Leavitt addressed the press at the White House Presser today, describing in horrific detail the pictures she was forced to view during the trial of Rachel’s rapist/torturer/murderer, an illegal alien from El Salvador. The details of what this monster did to the young mother are far too gruesome for me to mention in this post!
During her heart-wrenching address to the largely leftist White House press corps, Morin’s mother mentioned a Maryland Senator who was silent about the murder and offered no condolences to Rachael Morin’s traumatized family, including her grieving children and parents…choosing instead to fly to El Salvador to demand justice for another violent MS-13 gang member recently deported illegal alien from El Salvador, Kilmar Garcia, and to demand Garcia be returned to the U.S.
That Maryland Senator is Democrat, Chris Von Hollen!
Hollen in Dutch means HOLE like in asshole
schumer in german means useless.
What a phony, assinine stunt. Democrats: they’re such medicine men selling elixir off the back of a wagon. Total, insufferable idiocy. Imagine the United States with no Democrats in DC; we would truly be a city on a shining hill.
amazing how easy it is to dismiss these idiots when they don’t have the DOJ/FIB in tow.
Moron!
This Van Hollen troglodyte is such a useful idiot. Where was this level of concern when an illegal piece of trash would murder a U.S. citizen? Van Hollen made such a fool of himself. He is now worth less than a cup of my saliva.
Just in and O/T
@EmeraldRobinson
8h
BREAKING: Project Sentinel sources report that former CIA Director John Brennan recently met with Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
https://nitter.poast.org/EmeraldRobinson/status/1912571537351127182#m
WHY?
Wait a minute… we have a senator going to another country demanding the return of a terrorist to our country?
Bingo you won the internet
This is the first in a series of what is being called “deportation porn.” The tearful kids being filmed seeing their criminal dad hauled off by ICE. The wailing pregnant baby mama watching her MS-13 boyfriend rounded up.
You know, productive hard-working families being torn apart by these heartless law enforcers.
If nothing else, this issue removes all doubt as to who the America haters are.
I’m tearing up now..where is my tissue.? These morons that fall for this. Carville said a hill to die on. Insane.
Let Carville lead them!
The ghost of Janet Reno and the Cuban boy story lives on.
Alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s rank, street name revealed as fight over deportation to El Salvador megaprison rages: docs
https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/alleged-ms-13-gangbanger-kilmar-abrego-garcias-rank-street-name-revealed-as-fight-over-deportation-to-el-salvador-mega-prison-rages-docs/
“The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who was deported to El Salvador under President Donald Trump amid legal action claiming the removal was by mistake, was suspected of being engaged in human trafficking by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officer who detained him in December 2022, leading the THP to contact the FBI for guidance.
Within two hours, the FBI ultimately requested the THP release Garcia and the passengers in his vehicle. THP complied with the request.”
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/bidens-fbi-ordered-tn-highway-patrol-to-release-maryland-man-recently-deported-to-el-salvador-after-he-was-detained-in-2022-traffic-stop-on-suspicion-of-human-trafficking/tpappert/2025/04/16/
Arrest him for the violation of the Logan Act.