Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has defended deported MS-13 gang members by falsely claiming that they have been “illegally abducted” by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Van Hollen made the wild claims during an interview on MSNBC with host Mika Brzezinski on Monday.
The senator deceitfully told the show’s viewers that the Trump administration kidnapped members of foreign prison gangs, including MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Abrego Garcia entered the United States illegally and was living in Maryland until he was deported.
He was known to federal law enforcement as a human trafficker, a wife-beater, and a member of the bloodthirsty MS-13 street gang, a designated terrorist organization.
As part of the Democrats’ anti-Trump publicity stunt, Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador for a photo-op with Abrego Garcia.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Brzezinski said to Van Hollen:
“I want to ask you about why you are so focused on the case of [Garcia], why you traveled to El Salvador, and back to the issue of what has happened to all of these people who have been sent to this prison.
“What happened to these people?
“How would you describe it?
“What’s the term you would use?”
“I would say they were illegally abducted by U.S. government agents and then taken to foreign prisons against the law, “Van Hollen said.
“And the reason why it’s important to treat each of these cases individually under the law is because our Constitution requires due process before people can be deprived of their liberty.”
He added, “In the case of Abrego Garcia, for example, the federal district court judge said that the Trump Administration had provided absolutely no evidence linking him to MS-13, which is why I’ve said they need to put up or shut up in court and not just sort of wage this campaign on social media.”
WATCH:
Early on Saturday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted the Trump administration’s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).
The high court ruled that those who were slated for deportation had a right to challenge their removal.
Van Hollen claimed the Trump administration violated the “due process” rights of the foreign gang members.
The Trump administration released a 13-page dossier detailing the evidence against Abrego Garcia late Wednesday afternoon.
It included rulings from immigration courts that found he was a member of the El Salvadoran prison gang.
Abrego Garcia was detained in 2022 by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on suspicion of human trafficking but was released at the behest of the Biden administration, FBI, according to the Tennessee Star.
President Trump has issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security.
Those orders include designating Mexican drug cartels, TdA, and MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.
On March 15, Trump also invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of gang members.
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