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.