Attorney General Pam Bondi sharply criticized Democrats on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime, accusing them of being “detached from reality” regarding the impact of violent crime, particularly perpetrated by groups like MS-13.
Her comments came in response to Democratic Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen’s request for a meeting with El Salvador’s president to discuss the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man Van Hollen asserts was wrongly deported.
Bondi defended President Donald Trump’s decision to designate MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization, emphasizing the group’s violent and organized nature.
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“These people are so detached from reality that they don’t care about the victims of crimes in this country,” Bondi stated. “There is a reason that Donald Trump declared MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization. Because they have come to our country, they are highly organized. They are murdering people. They are raping people. They are organized crime at its worst.”
Bondi lauded El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for accepting the deportation of individuals like Abrego Garcia, who is currently held in the country’s mega-prison.
Bondi also took aim at what she described as progressive policies that “coddle violent offenders.” She asserted that groups like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua are “spread rampant throughout our country” and expressed hope that the U.S. would “rid our country” of them, expressing gratitude that President Bukele would “take them in a prison in El Salvador.”
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During the segment, Watters questioned the legality of sending American criminals to overseas facilities. Bondi responded by suggesting that the individuals in question had committed “the most heinous crimes” and that President Trump’s directive was to “make America safe again.”
She added, “These people need to be locked up as long as they can, as long as the law allows. We’re not going to let them go anywhere, and if we have to build more prisons in our country, we will do it.”
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