WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Mike Collins claimed he modified Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s workplace identify plaque to mirror the Democrat’s obvious allegiance to unlawful migrants — demonstrated by his journey this week to El Salvador.
“Hey @ChrisVanHollen, I went forward and adjusted your workplace plaque for you,” Collins (R-Ga.) wrote Friday on X alongside a photograph showing to point out the Democrat’s plaque reflecting his constituency as “El Salvador.”
It was instantly unclear Saturday if the signal was bodily altered or if it was a photoshopped picture.
The publish comes after Van Hollen (D-Md.) visited the central American nation to assist accused MS-13 member and unlawful migrant Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, whom the Trump administration just lately deported.
“I stated my important aim of this journey was to satisfy with Kilmar. Tonight I had that probability,” Van Hollen posted to X on Thursday. “I’ve known as his spouse, Jennifer, to cross alongside his message of affection. I sit up for offering a full replace upon my return.”
Collins earlier known as that publish “traitorous,” declaring that this was “a sitting U.S. Senator consoling an MS-13 gang member.”
Abrego-Garcia illegally entered the US in 2011 and was issued a deportation order in 2019, however remained within the nation towards the legislation.
In 2022, he was suspected of human trafficking after he was seen rushing in Tennessee with eight people within the car with no baggage — all of whom claimed to have lived at Abrego-Garcia’s tackle, in line with Homeland Safety Investigations.
However Democrats declare Abrego-Garcia was a hardworking Maryland man who shouldn’t have been deported.
The backlash towards Van Hollen comes after White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday introduced the mom of a Maryland lady killed by a separate unlawful migrant from El Salvador to the briefing room, the place she instructed reporters her senator “barely acknowledged my daughter’s dying.”
“I simply don’t perceive this,” stated Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel Morin was raped and murdered in 2023 by unlawful migrant Victor Martinez-Hernandez.
“A senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge — or barely acknowledged — my daughter and the brutal dying that she endured (selected to) use my tax cash to fly to El Salvador to convey again an individual — who isn’t even an American citizen.”
“Why are we not defending the Americans? It’s simply frequent sense. Why are we not defending our youngsters” she demanded.
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