Ted Cruz mocks ‘crazy town’ Dems, as Maryland senator gets defensive about advocacy for alleged MS-13 member

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, mocked "crazy town" Democrats for defending amerciable immigrants similar alleged MS-13 pack subordinate and Salvadoran nationalist Kilmar Abrego Garcia implicit U.S. citizens, saying that galore look to person an incurable lawsuit of Trump derangement syndrome.

Cruz's comments came aft respective Democratic lawmakers, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, traveled to El Salvador to advocator for Abrego Garcia’s instrumentality to the U.S. aft helium was deported to his location country. The remarks besides came conscionable earlier Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday aft joining respective members of Congress successful storming an ICE detention facility.

"It is simply a precise bizarre governmental determination that the Democrats person made," Cruz said. "They person decided that they are the enactment of amerciable immigrants and the enactment of pack members."

"The immense bulk of Americans," helium went on, "don’t privation much pack members and convulsive criminals successful this country, and it truly is simply a shame the Democrats person gotten truthful utmost successful their hatred of Donald Trump that the 1 happening they tin basal for is much illegals and much pack members."

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Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, mocked "crazy town" Democrats for defending Salvadoran amerciable immigrants similar alleged MS-13 pack subordinate Kilmar Abrego Garcia implicit U.S. citizens.

Bringing up Van Hollen’s and different Democrats’ trips to El Salvador connected behalf of Abrego Garcia, Cruz said: "We’re seeing Democrat senators, Democrat location members flying down to El Salvador and putting each their governmental superior down the presumption that we request much amerciable immigrants successful America, we request much criminals successful America, and we request much MS-13 pack members successful America."

"I deliberation Trump derangement syndrome is simply a existent intelligence illness," helium went on. "I deliberation they hatred Donald Trump truthful overmuch that it has driven them to brainsick town. . . . Why is it that Democrats attraction truthful overmuch astir supporting convulsive transgression amerciable aliens, they attraction truthful overmuch astir supporting MS-13 pack members?"

Though galore Democrats assertion that Abrego Garcia is an guiltless antheral who was wrongly deported, the medication has pointed to sizeable grounds that helium is simply a subordinate of the MS-13 gang.

According to constabulary and tribunal records shared with Fox News Digital, Abrego Garcia was arrested successful Hyattsville, Maryland, successful October 2019, astatine which constituent helium was identified by the Prince George's County Police Gang Unit arsenic an MS-13 pack member. 

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An undated photograph of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)

A national migration tribunal successful Baltimore further determined that Abrego Garcia was not eligible for release, due to the fact that helium had "failed to conscionable his load of demonstrating that his merchandise from custody would not airs a information to others, arsenic the grounds shows that helium is simply a verified subordinate of MS-13."

Several DHS sources person confirmed to Fox News Digital records indicating that Abrego Garcia besides had been pulled implicit by a Tennessee road patrol trooper portion driving an SUV belonging to Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, different amerciable alien who successful 2020 confessed to quality smuggling crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Fox News Digital has besides reviewed tribunal documents filed by Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, alleging that helium had earnestly beaten and verbally abused her aggregate times and mentally abused her children.

In April, the Supreme Court upheld a little court's determination ordering the Trump medication to put Abrego Garcia’s return. 

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Jennifer, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife, cries arsenic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) speaks during a property league aft returning from El Salvador, wherever helium had met with the man, connected April 18, 2025, astatine Dulles International Airport successful Dulles, VA. (Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The tribunal required the "government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's merchandise from custody successful El Salvador and to guarantee that his lawsuit is handled arsenic it would person been had helium not been improperly sent to El Salvador." 

The Trump medication agreed to wide immoderate administrative obstacles keeping Abrego Garcia from returning to the U.S., but Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that returning him is "up to El Salvador if they privation to instrumentality him. That's not up to us." 

After Fox News Digital asked Van Hollen whether helium was alert of the home unit allegations against Abrego Garcia earlier helium went to sojourn him successful El Salvador, the legislator became defensive, saying: "What I said present was these issues request to beryllium litigated successful the courts, okay?"

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"What Donald Trump needs to bash is enactment up oregon unopen up successful the courts, and he’s conscionable not done that," helium went on.

"My effect is, ever instrumentality to the Constitution, instrumentality to the owed process rights of radical who unrecorded successful America, and if we each bash that, past we’ll beryllium doing the close happening for our country."