He got totally humiliated.
You’ve got to hand it to Senator Chris Van Hollen — the man sure knows how to commit to a bad idea. Apparently not content to just grandstand from the Senate floor, Van Hollen hopped a flight to El Salvador to go check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia — you know, the guy deported by court order with alleged ties to MS-13, the same gang that’s left a trail of brutality from Central America to the suburbs of Long Island.
Instead of asking why this guy was ever in Maryland to begin with, Van Hollen’s priority is checking on his “condition” and assuring him that Democrats are fighting to bring him “home.” Yes, home — as in the United States. You can't make this stuff up. If Democrats were half as passionate about fixing the southern border as they are about re-importing known criminals, we might actually have a functioning immigration system.
Now, let’s talk about this so-called “high-security prison for terrorists” where Abrego Garcia is currently staying. It’s called CECOT — El Salvador’s no-nonsense facility for locking up the worst of the worst. That’s where this guy ended up after being deported, and Van Hollen is over there acting like he’s trying to visit a pen pal in minimum security. When the Salvadoran government said “no,” it wasn’t exactly shocking.
This isn’t a tourist attraction; it’s a facility built to contain dangerous individuals. Maybe if Van Hollen had called ahead, booked a guided tour, and brought snacks, he would’ve had better luck. But even his request for a phone call got the diplomatic equivalent of a hard pass. The Salvadoran VP was polite enough to direct him to the American embassy, which is bureaucrat-speak for “Good luck, buddy.”
And let’s not forget the cherry on top: Van Hollen is now claiming that El Salvador is holding Abrego Garcia because the Trump administration is paying them to do it. Seriously? The only thing more laughable than that is imagining the Trump team running some kind of international prisoner Airbnb program. What this actually is — plain and simple — is a country enforcing its own laws and agreements. Imagine that.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has made it clear that this man was ordered deported years ago. In fact, the order came down in 2019. He’s an illegal alien with a final removal order. This isn’t a gray-area asylum case. The man was never supposed to be here, and when he was removed, the left went into panic mode because, heaven forbid, someone actually enforces immigration law.
Stephen Miller hit the nail on the head when he called this entire narrative a sabotage job. Somewhere in the vast maze of the DOJ, someone tried to reclassify a justified deportation as a bureaucratic mix-up. Now the media’s spinning it like Trump personally loaded the guy onto a flight in defiance of the courts. In reality, it was a long-overdue enforcement of a legal removal.
Now the Supreme Court is stepping in, trying to split hairs between “facilitating” and “effectuating” a return. It’s a master class in legal gymnastics. Judge Paula Xinis is giving the administration two weeks to prove they’ve made some sort of effort to reverse the deportation — because in modern America, even removing an MS-13 suspect isn’t a permanent decision anymore. It’s a “maybe,” a “let’s revisit,” a “did you file the right paperwork in triplicate?”
The bigger story here is that Democrats have so lost the plot on border policy that they’re literally traveling to foreign countries to advocate for the return of suspected gang members. Not for hardworking farmers, not for visa holders waiting in line, not for legal immigrants trying to play by the rules. No — for someone who’s already been ordered removed, someone with alleged ties to one of the most brutal gangs in the Western Hemisphere.
If this is the hill they want to die on, so be it. But don’t be surprised when voters see through the circus act. Because while Chris Van Hollen is busy booking trips to El Salvador, the American people are wondering why their own communities are being treated like afterthoughts in this endless immigration drama.
