Democrats and their media allies are portraying a deported illegal migrant from El Salvador as a martyr of U.S. migration policy, so helping President Donald Trump’s deputies spotlight the Democrats’ sympathy for criminal illegals.
The deported migrant, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, “shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family [in Maryland],” Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced on Tuesday evening, adding:
I’m flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
“Senator Van Hollen seems to be under the very confused impression that this MS-13 terrorist is his constituent,” responded Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s chief migration advisor, adding:
He is [El Salvador] President Nayib Bukele’s constituent … He is not a “Maryland man.” He is not a Maryland anything. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador with a deportation order from the United States. He is even not allowed to legally be in our country. Under the Due Process that these Democrats so venerate for illegal invaders, it is legally impermissable for him to have one more minute in this country. So we honor the law and obey the law by getting him out of this country.
And if the entire Democrat Party was to work itself into a state of emotional hysteria to demand the return of illegal gang members and terrorists to our shores, then that 21 percent [polling support] will soon be 15 [percent] and then will be 11 [percent] and then all they will have left will be actual, confirmed Ms-13 members.
Many polls show that the public strongly supports Trump’s policy of deporting migrants. For example, Breitbart News reported on April 15 that “By a margin of 74 percent support to 26 percent, voters support deporting illegal aliens who have committed crimes. A full 70 percent support closing the border with only 30 percent opposing.”
But Democrats are hoping to wear down public opposition to migration by a relentness elite-funded “surround sound” PR campaign that subordinates Americans’ concerns under the Democrats’ preferred wave of migrants.
Homeland security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin trolled ABC News for describing the deported migrant as a “Maryland Man”:
McLaughlin is torching the Maryland Man Hoax https://t.co/hkI2mwiju2
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 15, 2025
Other Democrats are pledging to join Van Hollen on the trip to visit the deported illegal, including Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Ca.), a former illegal migrant.
The Democrat-affiliated establishment is also spotlighting the man’s crying wife to claim the “Maryland Man” can be returned to the United States- even though a judge ordered him deported in 2019. The migrant was not deported that year because a judge said he would be threatened by gangs in El Salvador.
But the gangs have been rounded up and detained in the infamous CECOT prison, and Trump has inked deals with several countries to accept illegal migrants who are being rejected by their home countries.
MILLER: “There's 15 million illegal aliens. If every one of them got the trial that you're asking for, it would take centuries to remove them."
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 15, 2025
This was part of the Biden regime open borders calculus. Overload the country by any means necessary with as many unvetted illegals as… pic.twitter.com/UUDPEuooZ3
The White House is expanding the dispute to show other migrants deported by Trump:
“Brutal killers and rapists— all taken off our streets in just the past week thanks to the tireless work of ICE. If Democrats and the media had their way, they would still be roaming free,” said a White House account on Twitter, which added:
Here are just a few of the criminal illegals ICE has arrested in the past several days:
Eduardo Garcia-Cortez, a 64-year-old, citizen of Honduras, was arrested by ICE Houston. Garcia has a conviction for murder in Los Angeles County, California. pic.twitter.com/pOBGfmLMdK
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 15, 2025
Jesus Guadalupe Salazar, a 23-year-old citizen of Mexico, was arrested by ICE Houston. Salazar has convictions for assault of a pregnant woman and violence against a family member in Hidalgo County, Texas. pic.twitter.com/DF415mwosD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 15, 2025
Pedro Contreras-Soto, a 54-year-old citizen of Mexico, was arrested by ICE Los Angeles. Contreras has convictions for rape of spouse by threat, sodomy with person under 14 years or with force, and kidnapping in San Jose, California. pic.twitter.com/YbmbIfK0Zg
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 15, 2025