White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller shredded Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen after the senator made a trip to El Salvador to show support for deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Miller spoke outside the White House after the senator visited Abrego Garcia, whose wife petitioned for a restraining order against him for domestic violence in 2021.
“I’m almost at a loss for words for how outrageous it is. Here’s an individual—the man who has been deported to his home country of El Salvador—who has been repeatedly documented by multiple federal and state authorities to be a member of MS-13, one of the most violent and ruthless criminal organizations on planet Earth, which is now a designated foreign terrorist organization,” the deputy chief of staff said.
“An individual who has been involved in human smuggling and human trafficking. An individual who is a documented woman beater—somebody who has viciously attacked a woman in ways that shock the human conscience. That is who the Democrat Party is going to provide aid, solace, and comfort to—not to Senator Van Hollen’s own constituents, like the Morin family,” Miller continued.
“Rachel Morin was viciously beaten, brutally raped, and murdered—and her mother never even got a phone call from Senator Van Hollen. Or Kayla Hamilton, a young girl who was attacked in a public restaurant, raped in the bathroom, and beaten to death—murdered by an illegal alien that Joe Biden set free into the country,” he said.
“None of those people elicit human sympathy from Senator Van Hollen. How broken is that man’s heart? How broken is his conscience, that he doesn’t have even an ounce of empathy, or time, or concern to share with those families?” Miller asked.
“Or how many of his citizen constituents have been killed by the fentanyl that Joe Biden allowed into this country—by the cartels that made a fortune off of human trafficking and smuggling into this country?” he added.
“Or the children in his state that cannot even get a good education or good health care because of the mass migration that has occurred into his state? None of that concerns him in the least. His heart is reserved for an illegal alien who’s a member of a foreign terrorist organization. I’m beyond appalled,” he said.
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Van Hollen is not the only Democrat who is standing with Abrego Garcia, who has been designated a member of the MS-13 gang by two U.S. immigration courts and El Salvador authorities.
More congressional Democrats are preparing to travel to El Salvador to meet with government officials over Abrego Garcia, including potential 2028 presidential contender Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Booker, the chamber’s No. 4 Democrat, is organizing the trip, Politico reported.
Van Holland’s visit was soundly criticized by Maryland resident Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was brutally maimed and murdered at the hands of an illegal alien in August of 2023.
Morin spoke at the White House during a press conference Wednesday as a “special guest” of press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during which she criticized him for going while providing shocking details of how Rachel was murdered.
“I just don’t understand this,” adding she was outraged that “a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge — or barely acknowledged — my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother” chose to “use my tax money to fly to El Salvador to bring back a person … who isn’t even an American citizen.”
“A lot of you don’t know the whole story about Rachel and about the crime that was committed against her,” she continued. “They kept most of it close to their chest, the detectives, because they didn’t want to do anything to hurt the case.”