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Any Democrat capable of redemption has already repented. Thus, those who know the truth and still remain Democrats surely must work for Satan. For instance, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement news release, earlier this month ICE agents arrested 23-year-old Guatemalan illegal immigrant Keycy Robinson Alexis Barrera-Rosa at the Charles County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland, then, on Friday, the CCSO charged Barrera-Rosa with murdering his 23-year-old girlfriend, Lesbia Mileth Ramirez-Guerra, mother of his two children. The charges came as Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland visited El Salvadorian prison, where he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the...

Sen. Van Hollen took a highly publicized trip last week to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return.. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Monday after he admitted that his trip to El Salvador to meet a deported illegal immigrant was paid for by taxpayers. Van Hollen took heat from Republicans and one of his constituents, Angel Mom Patty Morin, after he flew to El Salvador in an effort to bring home deported illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the White House maintains is an MS-13 gang member. On "Fox...

A woman who fatally struck two children who were walking in a crosswalk to their elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, in November 2023 has pleaded guilty to traffic misdemeanors with a maximum punishment of four months in jail. Olga Lugo Jiminez, 52, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was driving a van for an unlicensed school drop-off service when she hit the two children and one of their parents, according to court filings. …. In a statement, the Mbah family said they were pained by the result and felt it would send a message that negligent driving is not taken seriously,...

Baltimore’s public school district is going on a hiring spree while student enrollment plummets and test scores remain in the basement. Baltimore City Public Schools inflated its number of employees by nearly 19% over the six years between 2018 and last year, according to Maryland State Department of Education data analyzed by Fox 45’s Project Baltimore, an investigative initiative on the city’s floundering schools. The school district hired 1,714 more staffers while the number of students plummeted by 4,781 or 6%, the data show. It wasn’t mostly teachers the district hired, either. Over those six years, the district hired 992...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., set out to El Salvador this week to find Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of an erroneous deportation, and get answers about his condition. While he was relieved to get a chance to meet the Abrego Garcia face to face on Thursday, the senator slammed El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and President Donald Trump for what he said was a setup to defame him and the deportee. Van Hollen said Friday that what he called "margarita-gate" was manufactured by Bukele and his officials after they posted a photo of his meeting with...

After the 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Gracia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, made the first appearance since his arrest, US President Donald Trump took to social media to share an alleged altered photo of Kilmar's hand and linked it to the MS-13 gang, stating he is “not fine and innocent”. The photo of Abrego Garcia w/Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) from Thurs clearly shows no “MS-13” tattoo shop on either hand - nor in earlier photos”. Another said, ”Why did Donald Trump just lie to the American people even more about Kilmar Ábrego García being a gang member? Just...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-Md.) trip to El Salvador to visit a mistakenly deported constituent has thrust the mild-mannered lawmaker into a major battle with the Trump administration as it doubles down on its pledge to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia imprisoned abroad. Van Hollen embarked for the Central American nation on Wednesday after saying he would travel there if Abrego Garcia had not been returned by mid-week. In doing so, Van Hollen traveled straight to the capital of a country whose government rebuffed his request to meet with President Nayib Bukele, and who has vowed not to release Abrego Garcia....

The feds suspected alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador in an error, was engaged in human and labor trafficking in 2022, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post. The DHS intelligence report noted that Abrego Garcia was pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on Dec. 1, 2022, after he was caught speeding. Officers found eight other individuals in the car with Abrego Garcia, who said he was driving “three days ago” from Houston, Texas, to Temple Hills, Maryland, “to bring in people to perform construction work,” according to the memo. The...

The Sting (1973) is a classic crime-comedy film directed by George Roy Hill. Set in 1930s Chicago, it follows con artist Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and veteran grifter Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) as they team up to pull off an elaborate con against a ruthless mob boss, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). After Lonnegan's men kill Hooker's partner, the duo orchestrates a fake betting parlor scheme to swindle him out of a fortune. With clever twists, period charm, and a ragtime soundtrack featuring Scott Joplin's music, the film builds to a satisfying, surprising climax. It won seven Oscars, including Best Picture....

Sen Chris Van Hollen says he was set up with a margarita by El Salvador president Nayib Bukele during his visit with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "If you look at the [margarita] they put in front of Kilmar, it actually had a little less wet liquid than the one in front of me to try to make it look like you drank out of it." "Let me just be very clear. Neither of us touched the drinks that were in front of us."

Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) claimed on Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that the Trump administration was attacking the freedoms of speech, religion and the press. Co-host Pamala Brown said, “You talk about due process, that brings me to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen was able to finally get a face to face meeting with him. The administration admitted that he was wrongly deported to El Salvador. Where do you think this goes from here?” Dingell said, “You know, I don’t know where it goes. I’m glad that the senator was able to see...

Senator Chris Van Hollen is facing accusations of violating the Logan Act after his recent trip to El Salvador to lobby for the release of MS-13-linked illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The U.S. law from 1799 is aimed at preventing unauthorized foreign negotiations. Prior to Abrego Garcia’s deportation, courts ruled there was “sufficient” evidence he was linked to the violent gang MS-13. Despite the overwhelming evidence of Abrego Garcia’s gang ties, Democrats have attempted to paint him as an innocent Maryland father of three. However, they failed to mention his dubious past, which includes domestic violence allegations from his wife....

While President Donald Trump met with Angel Mom Patty Morin, whose 37-year-old daughter Rachel Morin was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in Maryland, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met in El Salvador with a deported illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member, domestic abuser, and human trafficker. Trump met with Patty Morin this week in the Oval Office as she also took to the White House press secretary podium to tell the establishment media of the brutal rape and murder her daughter, a mother of five, suffered at the hands of an illegal alien MS-13...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is currently in El Salvador out of concern for an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member and human trafficker, for whom he “won’t stop fighting until he’s home.” The criminal illegal immigrant is already home — he’s a Salvadoran citizen. Where was the Maryland senator’s concern when one of his own constituents, Rachel Morin — an innocent mother of five — was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant? Van Hollen didn’t even bother to contact her family. Where was his concern when an accused killer was allowed to roam free due to the so-called “sanctuary” policies...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) sought a photo opportunity and media attention. He got both though it’s turned into a nightmare for Democrats. Still, they don’t know it yet. The Democratic Party is obsessed with Abrego Garcia, who is the latest to be subjected to Rosa Parks syndrome: the Left’s incessant need to find a symbol for the struggle against Trump’s America. They opted to pick a wife-beating MS-13 gang member who was deported to El Salvador. ... Find someone who looks at you the way Senator Chris Van Hollen looks at an illegal immigrant who violently assaults his wife...

Once again, Democrats are on the wrong side of the biggest story in the country. This time, it’s Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen who is starring in the clown show after he flew down to El Salvador on Wednesday in a blatant publicity stunt to capitalize on progressive outrage over the deportation of suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The case of Abrego Garcia has become a flashpoint in the battle of public opinion over President Donald Trump’s efforts to carry out the “largest mass deportation program in American history.” On March 12, immigration authorities detained the 29-year-old Abrego...

Fox News host Jesse Watters highlights how Democrats are preoccupied with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s, D-Md., trip to El Salvador on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

We've been following the story of the deportation of Salvadoran national, illegal alien, and alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the bizarre effort of the Democrats, including Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, to try to bring him back to the United States. Van Hollen had been trying since Wednesday to get in to see Abrego Garcia. But then it looks like El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, decided that he was going to play a little 4D chess and prove that the Democrats were peddling a bunch of nonsense. He gave Van Hollen the photo op that would come back...

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.