Booker, the chamber’s No. 4 Democrat, is organizing the trip, Politico reported.

Separately, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, following through on his pledge to visit the country if Abrego Garcia remained in custody. He had also sought a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele during Bukele’s visit to the United States.

Van Holland’s visit was soundly criticized by Maryland resident Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was brutally maimed and murdered at the hands of an illegal alien in August of 2023.

 

Morin spoke at the White House during a press conference Wednesday as a “special guest” of press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during which she criticized him for going while providing shocking details of how Rachel was murdered

I just don’t understand this,” adding she was outraged that “a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge — or barely acknowledged — my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother” chose to “use my tax money to fly to El Salvador to bring back a person … who isn’t even an American citizen.”

“A lot of you don’t know the whole story about Rachel and about the crime that was committed against her,” she continued. “They kept most of it close to their chest, the detectives, because they didn’t want to do anything to hurt the case. They wanted to keep the integrity of the case, so they kept everything close. I sat for the last two weeks in her trial and we saw layer upon layer upon layer of evidence against the accused, an Illegal immigrant from El Salvador.

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“And the things that we thought, well, maybe this might have happened, we didn’t know, but we were at the trial, we got all the puzzle pieces. And I want to share some of those things with you. You know that Rachel’s a 37-year-old mother. She has five children. We walked the trail for the last 25 years that we’ve lived in Maryland,” she continued.