Brit Hume Identifies Who’s Pushing Democrats To Bring Abrego Garcia Back To US

Brit Hume appeared on Fox News Wednesday to discuss who is motivating Democrats to try to bring alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back to the United States.

Maryland Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to San Salvador on Wednesday to raise concerns about the deportation of Garcia. The El Salvador government denied him entry into the mega prison facility. During an appearance on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Hume said Democrats appear to be responding more to pressure from their political base than to broader public sentiment.

“I guess what we think these Democrats think is that they’re looking at a mandate from their most activist constituents to resist and fight and fight and fight,” Hume told Baier. “And so, they’re taking whatever opportunities to fight that they can. I’m not sure they’re choosing them very wisely.”

Hume said he’s puzzled why Van Hollen was rushing to advocate for a Salvadoran man.

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“It’s a bit of a mystery to me, Bret, why Chris Van Hollen, who I think would like to run for president, is racing down to El Salvador to try to get a Salvadoran man, who was illegally in the United States, out of jail down there,” Hume said. “Now, the courts are dealing with the question of whether he should have been put there and whether he should be brought back for due process or whatever.”

Hume said the Trump administration has released details suggesting Garcia was not only a gang member but had also beaten his wife.

“It’s hard for me to imagine that many Americans will look at this guy and think he’s a sympathetic victim. The administration has put forth a lot of information about the likelihood he was a gang member, and a dangerous one at that, and that he’d apparently beaten his wife and so on,” Hume said.

The Trump administration said it has no obligation to return Garcia. In court filings, the Justice Department said federal courts cannot intrude on foreign policy, including decisions about Garcia’s repatriation and detention. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Garcia in March and promptly deported him to El Salvador, where officials imprisoned him in a facility built for gang members. Authorities first identified him as an MS-13 associate following a 2019 Maryland arrest and a tip from a confidential informant.