Senator Chris Van Hollen acted with strength. He showed respect for the government of El Salvador, worked with the embassy, and used local press and social media to document his work. He used international law relevant to the case.

May this be a lesson for do something folks.

It takes politicking for politics. It takes patience and wisdom to be effective. We should want people like him to work for us.

US Senator Van Hollen meets wrongly deported man in El Salvador |
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-senator-van-hollen-says-he-met-wrongly-deported-man-el-salvador-2025-04-18/

Kamala Harris led the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, building on work she had done for years.

She worked with Joe Biden as he signed the first major gun reform law in decades.

She had a detailed proposal to continue the work.

The office was shut down on 1/20/2025.

Republicans now control the Presidency and both houses of Congress, so there won’t be anything but undoing gun safely legislation, even in response to a mass shooting incident, for years.

The media demanded Biden personally solve a shortage of baby formula that was caused by COVID and supply chain issues, not him, and kept after him for weeks about it while Trump's FDA isn't even bothering to inform people about E. coli outbreaks and nobody in the press will follow up on it.

Guess What Happens Next When There’s a Deadly E. coli Outbreak in the New Trump Era:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64512969/fda-e-coli-romaine-lettuce-outbreak-transparency/