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Karoline Leavitt Slams Chris Van Hollen For El Salvador Trip To Seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia Return
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4/16/2025
At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt slammed Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for traveling to El Salvador to try to get information on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident and El Salvadorian national who was sent to an El Salvador prison.
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Good afternoon everybody. President Trump campaigned on the promise to secure our
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homeland and deport violent alien criminals from our communities. That is
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why the American people overwhelmingly reelected him back to this office and
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it's why the American people defeated the Democrat Party in devastating fashion.
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Today we have officially learned Democrat officials still refuse to accept the
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will of the American people. Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen rushed
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to Dulles Airport this morning to fly to El Salvador potentially using taxpayer
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dollars to demand the release of deported illegal alien MS-13 terrorist. The
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Democrats in the media in this room have continually and wrongly labeled Kilmar
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Abrego Garcia as a Maryland father. There is no Maryland father. Let me
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reiterate Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an illegal alien MS-13 gang member and foreign
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terrorist who was deported back to his home country. And when Kilmar Abrego
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Garcia was originally arrested he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money
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covering the ears mouth and eyes of presidents on various currency
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denominations. This is a known MS-13 gang symbol of hear no evil, speak no evil, see
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no evil. Abrego Garcia was also arrested with two other well-known members of the
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vicious MS-13 gang. And two separate judges found that Abrego Garcia was a member
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of MS-13 and that finding has never been disputed. And just this morning it was
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revealed through Maryland court documents that Abrego Garcia's wife petitioned for an
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order of protection against him for two instances of domestic violence in May of
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2021. And here is the order right here. The court ordered that the respondents
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committed the following acts of abuse once in May of 2021 assaults in any degree. And
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on May 4th of 2021, he punched and scratched his wife, ripped off her shirt and grabbed and bruised
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her. This is from a court in Maryland. So not only are Democrats rushing to defend an illegal criminal
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foreign terrorist gang member, but also an apparent woman beater. To set all of that aside, the basic fact
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that he was illegally inside our country and had a lawful deportation order made him subject to removal
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back to his home country of El Salvador. And if he ever ends up back in the United States, he would
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immediately be deported again. Nothing will change the fact that Abrego Garcia will never be a Maryland
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father. He will never live in the United States of America again. And the United States Supreme Court ruled
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unanimously that the president of the United States and the secretary of state could not be compelled to
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forcibly retrieve this citizen of El Salvador, who is currently locked up in a maximum security prison in
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his home country due to his MS-13 membership. To remind the media and the Democrat Party, MS-13 are among the
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most vicious and dangerous individuals in this world. They pose a direct threat to the United States, El
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Salvador and any other country who maintains basic law and order. MS-13 rapes innocent girls and women,
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runs sex trafficking operations, murders for sports and terrorizes law abiding people. That's why El
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Salvador President Bukele made it clear this week that he will not be releasing this MS-13 gang member
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from his prison. But that is not enough. All of that is not enough to stop the Democrat Party from their
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lies. The number one issue they are focused on right now is bringing back this illegal alien terrorist
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to America. But where are the Democrats applauding the fact that southern border crossings just hit a
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historic low? Where are the Democrats supporting our brave men and women of law enforcement who are
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putting their lives on the line every single day to arrest the violent illegal alien invaders that the
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previous administration allowed into our country? And where are the Democrats when innocent Americans are
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victimized by illegal criminals that Joe Biden let in? It's appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and
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the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or
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empathy for their own constituents and our citizens.
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