Border czar Tom Homan criticized Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for his participation in a sit-in at a Baltimore Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Van Hollen joined Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Reps. Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), and Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) to sit in the George H. Fallon Federal Building on Monday. The group was protesting the facility’s denial of a tour.

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“He’s an embarrassment to the position he holds,” Homan said of Van Hollen. “The Democrats are upset because we’re proving every day what a national security threat, a public safety threat, that the Biden administration allowed.”

Homan noted Van Hollen did not hold demonstrations regarding the “record numbers” of women and children being sex trafficked, fentanyl deaths, or terrorists crossing the border. Instead, Van Hollen was “silent” on those matters, Homan said. Meanwhile, Van Hollen criticized Homan’s policies that led to the detention of alleged gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people, and they can’t stand it. They want to flip the script. They want to mismessage the American people,” Homan said. “Well, it’s not working.”

The Maryland delegation said they requested to visit the George H. Fallon building even though they “didn’t need to.” However, the Department of Homeland Security said the request was not made in a timely manner.

“As for visits to detention facilities, requests should be made with sufficient time to prevent interference with the President’s Article II authority to oversee executive department functions — a week is sufficient to ensure no intrusion on the President’s constitutional authority,” DHS wrote on X.

“To protect the President’s Article II authority, any request to shorten that time must be approved by the Secretary,” it added.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded to the demonstration by sharing photos of the Baltimore facility detainees and their alleged crimes. The crimes include rape, child pornography possession, sexual abuse of a minor, and conspiracy to commit murder.

“These are the monsters that @ChrisVanHollen is protecting over Americans [sic] victims,” Noem wrote.

DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS STAGE SIT-IN AFTER DENIED ACCESS TO BALTIMORE ICE FACILITY

“Noem lies almost as much as her boss,” Van Hollen wrote in response. “If she paid any attention to what I said here, she would’ve heard me say that we support targeting ‘the worst of the worst’ — but that ICE’s OWN data shows that 72% of people held by ICE have no criminal records and 84% pose NO threat.”

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), April Delaney (D-MD), and Andy Harris (R-MD) were in the minority of the Maryland delegation by avoiding the demonstration.