A trip to El Salvador by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant deported on allegations of being a member of the M-13 gang, “shows you what the left of the Democratic Party now stands for,” Chad Wolf, a former acting Department of Homeland Security secretary, told Newsmax on Tuesday.

Wolf said on “Wake Up America” that “it’s not rocket science” for Van Hollen to have asked Abrego Garcia if he was a gang member, which the lawmaker did not do.

“They want to return convicted individuals, MS-13 gang members, individuals that are part of a foreign terrorist organization to the United States,” said Wolf, now the executive vice president for the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute.

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