Senate Republicans Release Video After El Salvador Trip
If satire could vote, it would probably elect the current Democratic delegation to El Salvador as its official mascot. What started as an ill-conceived attempt to score political points on the backs of violent criminals has quickly devolved into a full-blown public relations disaster—one that Republicans were all too happy to immortalize in a savage, ad-style video mocking the whole charade.
The center of this farce? Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who became the face of the Democrats’ latest effort to defend deported individuals—including none other than alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia, now residing in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison, wasn’t just deported by the Trump administration for immigration violations.
NEW DIGITAL AD:
¡Bienvenidos a El Salvador Senate Dems!
Democrats should feel free to make their trip to hang out with MS-13 gangbangers one-way pic.twitter.com/hKqzwj7GT6
— Senate Republicans (@NRSC) April 21, 2025
Allegations trailing him include domestic abuse and possible ties to human trafficking. Yet Van Hollen made the journey to meet with him personally, appearing more invested in the welfare of a suspected gangbanger than in the memory of Rachel Morin—a Maryland mother of five brutally murdered by a different illegal alien gang member. The contrast is staggering.
Van Hollen’s trip sparked outrage—and comedy. Senate Republicans responded with a mock travel commercial that skewers the Democrats’ priorities with a tone both biting and hilarious. The ad begins innocently enough, promising “breathtaking sunsets” and “world class surf breaks,” only to pivot to the true attraction: “and gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia.”
That wasn’t the end of it. The voiceover continues:
“El Salvador is the destination for Democrats seeking the thrill of bringing violent criminal illegal aliens back to America... From Chris Van Hollen to Cory Booker, you may even see Jon Ossoff.”
Then the knockout line: “Step into the rhythm of rescue today.”
LMAO! Cory Booker, aka Spartacus, is considering leading a trip of Congressmen to El Salvador to DEMAND a member of violent gang MS-13 be returned to the United States
Democrats are going ALL IN on flooding the streets with gangs.
Good luck in 2026 pic.twitter.com/igPn5njh9k
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 15, 2025
The GOP didn’t stop there. As four more Democrats—Reps. Maxine Dexter, Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, and Yassamin Ansari—made their own pilgrimage to El Salvador, hoping to continue the “rescue mission,” they were quickly reminded that the stagecraft has limits. Denied taxpayer funding for the trip by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, and then denied access to Abrego Garcia by Salvadoran authorities who deemed their visit unofficial, they returned with nothing but selfies and soundbites.
The Republicans’ video may play for laughs, but it strikes a deeper chord about priorities and accountability. While American citizens continue to suffer under the strain of crime fueled by lax immigration enforcement, Democratic lawmakers seem more interested in virtue-signaling photo ops than in defending their constituents.