The Trump administration sharply rebuked Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) this week for prioritizing a deported MS-13 gang member over the safety of American citizens like Rachel Morin, a Maryland woman murdered by an illegal Salvadoran national in 2023. Van Hollen has traveled to El Salvador in an attempt to return 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, despite his gang affiliations.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has pledged to travel to El Salvador in an attempt to secure the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member who was deported under the Trump administration and is currently imprisoned in the Central American country. Van Hollen claims the man, a resident of Maryland and father of three, was “illegally abducted” from the United States.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with President Donald Trump on Monday, where he declared he will not "smuggle a terrorist into the United States."
The Trump administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court, asking it to halt a judge's order demanding the return of an illegal immigrant believed to be a member of MS-13.
Federal authorities have captured three MS-13 gang members with ties to multiple unsolved murders in the U.S., U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday.
The White House defended the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a convicted MS-13 gang member, after The Atlantic published a sympathetic profile labeling him a "Maryland dad" and attributing his removal to a mere “administrative error.” The Trump administration, however, maintains that Garcia was a verified gang member and posed a danger to public safety.
