WASHINGTON – Republican Rep. Mike Collins claimed that he changed the plaque of Senator Chris Van Hollen’s office name to reflect the Democrats’ clear loyalty to illegal immigration demonstrated on this week’s trip to El Salvador.
“Hey @Chrisvanhollen, I went ahead and changed the plaque in your office,” Collins (R-Ga.) wrote on Friday to X along with a photo that appears to show the Democratic plaque, which reflects his constituency as “El Salvador.”
It was immediately unknown on Saturday whether the signs had been physically changed or whether they were photoshopped images.
This post comes after Van Hollen (D-MD.) visited a Central American country and supported the Trump administration’s recent deportation of MS-13 members and illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.
“I said the main goal of this trip was to meet up with Kilmer. I had that opportunity tonight,” Van Hollen posted on X on Thursday. “I called his wife Jennifer to share his message of love and look forward to providing a full update on my return.”
Collins previously referred to the post as “tratours,” pointing out that this is “a sitting US senator comforting members of the MS-13 gang.”
Abrego-Garcia illegally entered the United States in 2011 and was issued an expelling order in 2019, but remained in a country that violated the law.
In 2022, he was suspected of human trafficking after seeing him speed up in Tennessee, where eight individuals were found in a vehicle without luggage. Homeland Security investigations claimed that they all lived at the address of Abrego Garcia.
But Democrats argue that Abrego Garcia is a hardworking Maryland man who should not be deported.
The backlash against Van Hollen told her senator “barely admitted my daughter’s death” after White House press chief Caroline Leavitt killed the Maryland woman’s mother from El Salvador to the briefing room on Wednesday.
“I don’t understand this,” said Patti Morin, whose daughter, Rachel Morin, was raped and murdered in 2023 by illegal immigrant Victor Martinez Hernandez.
“The Maryland senators have not, or barely admitted, that my daughter and her had used my taxes to fly to El Salvador and endure (choose) to bring back non-US citizens.”
“Why don’t we protect American citizens? That’s just common sense. Why don’t we protect children?” she demanded.
