As the legal saga over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador continues in the courts, the political battle over the Trump administration’s handling of the case is really sizzling. Team Trump has stepped up its argument that Democratic and civil-libertarian sympathy for Abrego Garcia’s plight betrays indifference to the victims of illegal-immigrant crime. The most stunning example of this classic whataboutism tactic came from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who showed up at her April 16 briefing for reporters with a “special guest”: Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel Morin was killed by an undocumented immigrant. The Maryland resident wanted to know why her senator, Chris Van Hollen, was more interested in repatriating Abrego Garcia than in protecting constituents like her late daughter from people like him.

Morin previously spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention as one of several “angel........

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