Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Thursday to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien allegedly involved with the infamous gang MS-13.

The lawmaker has said that Abrego Garcia, who is from El Salvador and was sent along with other illegal aliens to the facility used by the Latin American country to imprison gang members, was wrongly deported. The wife of Abrego Garcia, who previously filed a domestic violence complaint against him, has insisted that the Trump administration should return her husband.

“I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance,” Van Hollen commented on social media after the visit in El Salvador. “I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”

Trump administration officials such as Attorney General Pam Bondi have defended their move to deport him, noting that Abrego Garcia was previously identified as an MS-13 member by a Maryland police gang unit, immigration officers, an immigration judge, and an appellate board.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt meanwhile hosted Patty Morin, the mother of the late Rachel Morin, a mother of five who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in Maryland.

“It feels like a part of you is being ripped out. You can't even describe the pain,” Morin remarked while at the White House. “Why should we allow people like this, violent criminals, that have no conscience at all to murder our mothers, our sisters, our daughters? I don't understand.”