Van Hollen's Sunday show media blitz comes after he traveled to El Salvador this week to meet with Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported from Maryland.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, wanted his meeting with the mistakenly deported Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to “look like he was in paradise.” The

Van Hollen, 66, got his start in politics as a staffer for former Maryland U.S. Sen. Charles Mathias in the 1980s, going on to staff the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, later, Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer.