Karoline Leavitt Slams Chris Van Hollen For El Salvador Trip To Seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia Return

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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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00:00Good afternoon everybody. President Trump campaigned on the promise to secure our

00:06homeland and deport violent alien criminals from our communities. That is

00:12why the American people overwhelmingly reelected him back to this office and

00:16it's why the American people defeated the Democrat Party in devastating fashion.

00:20Today we have officially learned Democrat officials still refuse to accept the

00:26will of the American people. Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen rushed

00:32to Dulles Airport this morning to fly to El Salvador potentially using taxpayer

00:37dollars to demand the release of deported illegal alien MS-13 terrorist. The

00:45Democrats in the media in this room have continually and wrongly labeled Kilmar

00:50Abrego Garcia as a Maryland father. There is no Maryland father. Let me

00:57reiterate Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an illegal alien MS-13 gang member and foreign

01:03terrorist who was deported back to his home country. And when Kilmar Abrego

01:09Garcia was originally arrested he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money

01:13covering the ears mouth and eyes of presidents on various currency

01:17denominations. This is a known MS-13 gang symbol of hear no evil, speak no evil, see

01:24no evil. Abrego Garcia was also arrested with two other well-known members of the

01:29vicious MS-13 gang. And two separate judges found that Abrego Garcia was a member

01:35of MS-13 and that finding has never been disputed. And just this morning it was

01:41revealed through Maryland court documents that Abrego Garcia's wife petitioned for an

01:46order of protection against him for two instances of domestic violence in May of

01:522021. And here is the order right here. The court ordered that the respondents

01:59committed the following acts of abuse once in May of 2021 assaults in any degree. And

02:06on May 4th of 2021, he punched and scratched his wife, ripped off her shirt and grabbed and bruised

02:15her. This is from a court in Maryland. So not only are Democrats rushing to defend an illegal criminal

02:23foreign terrorist gang member, but also an apparent woman beater. To set all of that aside, the basic fact

02:30that he was illegally inside our country and had a lawful deportation order made him subject to removal

02:36back to his home country of El Salvador. And if he ever ends up back in the United States, he would

02:42immediately be deported again. Nothing will change the fact that Abrego Garcia will never be a Maryland

02:50father. He will never live in the United States of America again. And the United States Supreme Court ruled

02:55unanimously that the president of the United States and the secretary of state could not be compelled to

03:01forcibly retrieve this citizen of El Salvador, who is currently locked up in a maximum security prison in

03:07his home country due to his MS-13 membership. To remind the media and the Democrat Party, MS-13 are among the

03:14most vicious and dangerous individuals in this world. They pose a direct threat to the United States, El

03:21Salvador and any other country who maintains basic law and order. MS-13 rapes innocent girls and women,

03:27runs sex trafficking operations, murders for sports and terrorizes law abiding people. That's why El

03:35Salvador President Bukele made it clear this week that he will not be releasing this MS-13 gang member

03:41from his prison. But that is not enough. All of that is not enough to stop the Democrat Party from their

03:48lies. The number one issue they are focused on right now is bringing back this illegal alien terrorist

03:54to America. But where are the Democrats applauding the fact that southern border crossings just hit a

03:59historic low? Where are the Democrats supporting our brave men and women of law enforcement who are

04:04putting their lives on the line every single day to arrest the violent illegal alien invaders that the

04:09previous administration allowed into our country? And where are the Democrats when innocent Americans are

04:15victimized by illegal criminals that Joe Biden let in? It's appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and

04:23the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or

04:30empathy for their own constituents and our citizens.

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