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On the recordMay 13, 2025
this week, Senator Kaine of Virginia and Senator Van Hollen of Maryland are going to force a vote on a resolution here in the Senate, and, astonishingly, it is in defense of illegal immigrant criminals. They are going to take up the Senate's time, the time of the American people, because they want to defend illegal immigrant criminals. It is called the Kaine-Van Hollen resolution, pure political theater. It is not about human rights. It is not about protecting Americans, in my opinion, from violent crime, and that is why I am opposing what they are proposing here today. What they are proposing is to shield illegal immigrant criminals-- shield them from deportation and shield them as they try to evade arrest. Democrats want to defend illegal immigrant criminals, and apparently they want to continue to do that. Let's talk about illegal immigrant criminals, and let's talk about the one that they are running to check on in El Salvador: Kilmar Abrego Garcia. That is what one of them did, went to go check on him. The media likes to call him a ``Maryland man.'' Senator Van Hollen said he doesn't ``vouch'' for Garcia. Yet he is one of many Democrats now who have gone to El Salvador. Let's talk about Garcia's record. That is what the American people have been hearing about as well. For starters, Garcia is an illegal immigrant with a deportation order. He has been ordered by the courts to be deported from the United States.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

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Discussing a resolution by Senators Kaine and Van Hollen regarding illegal immigrant criminals.

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