White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told delusional Democrats they are wasting their time trying to bring a deported illegal alien from El Salvador back to the United States.
“To the Democrat Party, who thinks that they’re going to bring this foreign terrorist back to the United States of America to live a peaceful and happy life — that is never going to happen!”
.@PressSec on deported illegal immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia:
“To the Democrat Party, who thinks that they’re going to bring this foreign terrorist back to the USA to live a peaceful and happy life — that is NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.” pic.twitter.com/QEkMu4CWWz
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 21, 2025
The press secretary delivered the clear and direct message during a “Fox & Friends” interview as she blasted Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who went on a media tour of Sunday morning news shows to tout efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man suspected of ties to the MS-13 gang.
“Not only is this an MS-13 gang member, but he is also an illegal alien who broke our nation’s laws to come here,” Leavitt said. “And not only is it a slap in the face to the American citizens whose lives (have) been put in danger, or in many cases lost at the hands of these illegal alien criminal gang members, but it’s also a slap in the face to the millions of legal immigrants who came to out country the right way.”
🚨 THEY’VE ARRIVED! Democratic Reps. Maxwell Frost, Maxine Dexter, Robert Garcia and Yassamin Ansari are now in El Salvador to push for the return of Kilmar Garcia. pic.twitter.com/3Oe8NE9asy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 21, 2025
Democrats continue to flush away their diminished credibility with the defense of Abrego Garcia as just a “Maryland man,” and loving father who was “disappeared” by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has refused to release the man, but on Sunday, he reached out to Venezuela about a possible prisoner exchange, though the two nations have had no diplomatic relations since 2019.
At least 238 Venezuelans allegedly tied to Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs were deported by the U.S. to El Salvador.
“Bukele said 252 Venezuelans held in El Salvador could be released as part of a ‘humanitarian’ exchange, if Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro agreed to release people who have ‘committed no crime’ and are imprisoned for opposing ‘your electoral fraud,'” The Hill reported.
“The only reason they are imprisoned is for having opposed you and your electoral fraud,” he wrote in a post on social media to Maduro. “However, I want to propose a humanitarian agreement that includes the repatriation of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and surrender of an identical number (252) of the thousands of political prisoners you hold.”
Listed among the prisoners were “the son-in-law of former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González, a number of political leaders seeking asylum in the Argentine embassy in Venezuela, and what he said were 50 detained citizens from a number of different countries across the world. Bukele also listed the mother of opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose house the political leader has said was surrounded by Venezuelan police in January,” the AP reported.
In a statement, Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office responded with a demand for the list of the people being detained as well as their legal status and medical reports while calling out the Salvadoran leader as a “neofascist.”
“The treatment received by Venezuelans in the United States and El Salvador, constitutes a serious violation of international human rights law and constitutes a crime against humanity,” the statement read.
