Democrats have gone all in on returning “Maryland father” Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States—as if this were the most pressing issue facing the country today.
Considering the harm inflicted on our nation and the American lives lost to violent gang members from south of the border, championing the return of an illegal immigrant whom two U.S. courts have identified as a member of MS-13 and whose wife has twice sought restraining orders for domestic violence, seems like a bizarre hill for Democrats to die on.
Swept up in their El Salvador fever, Democrats now appear to be defending the indefensible. The irrationality of this position has one House Democrat calling the deportation issue a “soup du jour,” arguing that President Donald Trump is “setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we’re falling for it.”
This centrist member of Congress, who spoke to Axios on the condition of anonymity, said, “Rather than talking about the tariff policy and the economy … the thing where his numbers are tanking, we’re going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” [He was likely referring to deportee Andry Hernandez Romero.]
The lawmaker added that if Trump were to deport a U.S. citizen, Democrats would be forced to draw a “line in the sand” and “shut down the House.”
This individual may be the single voice of sanity left inside the Democratic Party. The rest of the party is doubling and tripling down on stupid.
Democrats in both chambers of Congress are trying to arrange congressional delegations (CODELs) to the San Salvadoran prison to protest Abrego Garcia’s “wrongful” incarceration. Among this group is Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), who told Axios on Tuesday, “This is about a president of the United States defying the Supreme Court and wanting to be a king.”
Asked by Axios if this issue might be a political loser for Democrats, Garcia claimed that was “total bullsh*t,” saying “this is not just a deportation story … this is a broader story about Donald Trump consolidating power.”
Or maybe Trump is just trying to keep Americans safe.
On Wednesday, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to much fanfare. In remarks before boarding his plane, he noted, “We are going to keep fighting to bring Abrego Garcia home, until he returns to his family.”
Did Van Hollen not understand that Abrego Garcia is already home?
He continued, “I hope to meet with representatives of the government. I hope I have the chance to actually see Kilmar and see what his condition is.”
Van Hollen explained, “What bullies do is they begin by picking on the most vulnerable, but if we get rid of the rule and due process in the United States, it’s a short road from there to tyranny.”
That’s right—a U.S. senator just described a man twice accused of domestic violence, and identified by multiple courts as a member of a brutal gang responsible for widespread violence across the country, as one of the “most vulnerable.”
As it turned out, Van Hollen was not permitted to meet with Abrego Garcia. (He was, however, kindly offered a tour of the prison—which he declined.) Still, to the delight of his base, his point had been clearly conveyed.
Apparently, Van Hollen, Garcia, and others advocating for Abrego Garcia’s return have forgotten that the Biden administration’s open-border policies—which allowed over 15 million unvetted illegal immigrants into the country—ranked among voters’ top three concerns in the November election.
The White House invited Patty Morin—the mother of Rachel Morin, whose life was brutally cut short in an act of unimaginable violence by a depraved illegal alien—to speak at a Wednesday afternoon press briefing.
Morin recounted the harrowing details of her daughter’s death. Rachel, a 37-year-old mother of five, was found slain along a well-traveled Maryland hiking trail, her body bearing the marks of a savage and senseless attack. Authorities described the scene as “heinous,” the work of a madman with no regard for human life.
Her gripping words left the typically combative press corps in stunned silence. After sharing her deeply disturbing story, Morin looked around the room and simply said, “Tell the truth.”
No, Abrego Garcia is not the man who killed Rachel Morin. But a criminal record is not required for deportation. He did enter the U.S. illegally, and evidence overwhelmingly indicates he is a member of MS-13—a violent and deadly gang known for its brutality.
Despite this, a judge granted him a reprieve based on his claim that he would be killed if he were deported to his home country. In February, however, Trump designated MS-13 as a terrorist organization—a move that would appear to nullify any such reprieve.
The optics of the Democrats’ Herculean push to bring an illegal immigrant back into the U.S. will not sit well with most Americans, the majority of whom have grown weary of the Left’s unrelenting embrace of woke politics.
Additionally, although few Americans have been touched as profoundly by the border crisis as Patty Morin, most of us know someone who has died as a result of the large quantities of fentanyl that cartels have smuggled into the country.
Instead of pouring time—and taxpayer dollars—into freeing a likely terrorist from a foreign prison, perhaps Democrats should focus on what their constituents actually elected them to do: defend the interests and safety of the American people.
Perhaps the anonymous lawmaker is right: Trump set a trap for the Democrats and they walked straight into it. He does seem to have a knack for making the Left look foolish, doesn’t he?
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