R-Texas Senator Ted Cruz mocked the “crazy town” Democrats for defending illegal immigration, such as the so-called MS-13 gang members and Salvadoran National Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense of U.S. citizens, saying many people seem to have an incurable Trump devastating syndrome.
Cruz's comments were posted after several Democratic lawmakers, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, heading to El Salvador to advocate for Abrego Garcia's return to the United States, and he was deported to his home country. The remarks also came after Newark, New Jersey, arrested after attacking the ice detention center with members of Congress on Friday.
"It's a very strange political decision made by the Democrats," Cruz said. "They think they are partisans of the illegal immigrants and gang members."
He continued: “The vast majority of Americans don’t want more gang members and violent criminals in this country, which is shameful that the Democrats’ hatred of Donald Trump has become so extreme that one thing they can represent is more illegal persons and more gang members.”
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R-Texas Senator Ted Cruz laughed at the "crazy town" Democrats for defending illegal immigration from El Salvador, such as so-called MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia against U.S. citizens.
Cruz said Van Hollen and other Democrats representing Abrego Garcia, who said, “We are seeing Democratic Senators, Democratic Senators flying to El Salvador and lag all political capital behind the United States, we need more illegal immigration in the United States, we need more American criminals, we need more MS-13 gang members.”
"I think Trump Danger Syndrome is a real mental illness," he continued. "I think they hate Donald Trump so much that they drive them into crazy towns...Why are Democrats so concerned with supporting the crime illegal foreigners who care so much about supporting MS-13 gang members?"
While many Democrats claim Abrego Garcia was an innocent man who was wrongly deported, the government pointed out a lot of evidence that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
Abrego Garcia was arrested in October 2019 in Hyattsville, Maryland, when he was identified as a member of the MS-13 gang by Prince George County Police Gang Force, according to police and court records with Fox News.
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Undated photos of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)
The federal immigration court in Baltimore further determined that Abrego Garcia was not eligible for release because he “failed to fulfill his responsibility to prove that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others because the evidence suggests he is a verified member of MS-13.”
Fox News digital records have confirmed that several DHS sources confirmed that Abrego Garcia was also driven by a Tennessee Highway Patrol motorist driving an SUV belonging to Jose Ramon Hernandez, another illegal alien who admitted to crossing humans at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2020.
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Fox News Digital also reviewed court documents filed by Abrego Garcia's wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, accusing him of aggravated assault and verbally abused her and mentally abused her children.
In April, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling, ordering the Trump administration to arrange for Abrego Garcia's return.
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Jennifer, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) cried at a press conference after meeting the man at Dulles Airport in Dulles, Virginia on April 18, 2025. (Pete Kiehart gets The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The court asked “the government to promote the release of Abrego Garcia from custody of El Salvador and ensure that his case was handled because it would have been done if he had not been improperly sent to El Salvador.”
The Trump administration agreed to clear any administrative barriers to prevent Abrego Garcia from returning to the U.S., but Attorney General Pam Bondi said the return to him “if they want to return him, it’s up to him by El Salvador. It’s not up to us.”
After Fox News Digital asked Van Hollen whether he was aware of the allegations Abrego Garcia had filed against Abrego Garcia before he visited him in El Salvador, the senator said: "What I'm saying here is that these issues need to be filed in court, okay?"
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He continued: "What Donald Trump needs to do is lift or close in court, he just didn't do that."
“My response is to always adhere to the Constitution, to uphold the due process rights of people living in the United States, and if we all do that, then we will do the right thing for our country.”