The mother of murdered Maryland woman Rachel Morin reduced the White House press corps to stunned silence Wednesday as she slammed her home state Sen. Chris Van Hollen for traveling to El Salvador to try to return a deported alleged MS-13 gang member.

“I just don’t understand this,” Patty Morin told reporters after graphically describing the 2023 murder of her 37-year-old daughter by Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, a different Salvadoran illegal immigrant who was convicted Monday of the crime.

Morin said she was outraged that “a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge — or barely acknowledged — my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother” chose to “use my tax money to fly to El Salvador to bring back a person … who isn’t even an American citizen.”

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