Van Hollen, 66, got his start in politics as a staffer for former Maryland U.S. Sen. Charles Mathias in the 1980s, going on to staff the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, later, Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer.

"Border czar" Tom Homan told ABC's "This Week" that what's really concerning to him about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is how Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to meet him while ignoring the chaos on the Southern border over the past four years and those murdered by illegal aliens in his own state.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who recently met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, slammed the Trump administration for its handling of the Maryland man’s mistaken deportation, telling CNN it poses a threat to “the constitutional rights of everybody in America.