Van Hollen and Kilmar’s meetup: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s assembly with deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
How does a politician from Maryland even take into consideration going to a international nation to fulfill with an unlawful immigrant (“Dem sit with ‘gang’ inmate,” April 18)?
You are an elected official within the United States, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, and you’re spending American taxpayer {dollars} to get — I suppose — what you consider is sweet press.
I do know we’ve at all times had radicals on this nation, and it’s not a dangerous factor to have people with divergent views.
However, a journey to a international nation on this context must be in your own dime.
Mike Holland
Naples, Fla.
This nation is in turmoil.
There is rampant antisemitism at universities, the place radical idiots are protesting in opposition to Israel and Jewish college students.
They weren’t even born during the period of World War II — nor had been they alive for 9/11.
Now Sen. Chris Van Hollen has made one particular person, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his precedence.
Why is that this senator championing the return of an unlawful immigrant whereas American residents are nonetheless not secure in faculties?
Did I miss one thing right here?
Taxpayer {dollars} are exhausting at work — and we’re most likely additionally paying for no matter is on the desk at this amicable assembly between the senator and Abrego Garcia.
Sylvia Kane
Brooklyn
When common sense prevailed over stupidity within the November election, there was aid and hope for our nation.
Apparently the media and Democrats didn’t get the message.
They are resorting to the identical drained techniques that put former President Joe Biden in workplace.
These people have completely no disgrace, as witnessed by the unpatriotic motion of Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen.
The few conservative information shops — The Post and Fox News notably — don’t appear to be enough to conquer Trump Derangement Syndrome and the unfold of the media’s anti-American sentiment.
We need to stop kidding ourselves; the warped left media is a clear and current hazard to the United States and what it stands for.
Don Whitman
Cross River
Kilmar, a resident of Maryland, was pulled over whereas driving his younger daughter, and kidnapped in blatant violation of a federal decide’s order.
You could ask: Why do “bleeding heart liberals” care about somebody who The Post calls an “alleged gangbanger?”
The reply is easy: What if the one you love was pulled over, kidnapped and spirited out of the nation by the federal government with none fees filed or a probability to contest these actions in court docket?
The authorities may say that the one you love is a “gangbanger” as a result of he wore a Chicago Bulls hat or jersey and had the improper tattoo.
That is all it could take to tear him out of your home or your car and put him in a international most security jail with no rights or due course of.
Jay Ess
Brooklyn
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Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to plead for the release of unlawful alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, one other big waste of taxpayer {dollars}.
Have New Jersey Democratic Sens. Cory Booker or Andy Kim traveled to Gaza to beg for the release of New Jersey’s American citizen Edan Alexander, who has been a hostage in Gaza since 2023?
They haven’t executed something to Van Hollen’s extent, like pleading for his release from Hamas terrorists.
The rights of American residents need to be protected first and foremost.
Betty Schwartz
Livingston, NJ
What form of senator publicly broadcasts that he’s going to go to an alleged gang member earlier than he will get on the aircraft, with out even understanding beforehand that he can see him?
And Van Hollen needs to make plans for the remaining of us?
John Dumary
Duanesburg
According to the Trump administration, the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a mistake — much like how SignalGate was a mistake.
Perhaps the Republican voters made a larger mistake once they elected this mistake-prone genius for president.
Lou Maione
Manhattan
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