Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) suggested President Donald Trump could imprison anyone by labeling them “a non-citizen gang member.”

The comment came as an attempt to defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the Department of Justice has classified as an MS-13 member and deported to his home country of El Salvador. Democrats have pointed to a minor lack of paperwork as evidence that he was mistakenly deported. Abrego Garcia will remain in El Salvador’s terrorism confinement center.

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Torres tried to make a case that the lack of paperwork could be chalked up to disrupting due process.

“[O]f all the abuses of Donald Trump’s presidency, there is no greater threat to liberty than his complete contempt for due process. You know, without due process, what stops Donald Trump from wrongfully labeling any American as a non-citizen gang member and abducting them in the dead of night and rendering them to a foreign prison to be tortured?” Torres said on CNN’s The Situation Room. “You know, Donald Trump’s actions set a dangerous precedent for our democracy.”

During a press briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the outrage from legacy media over Abrego Garcia’s deportation.

“The Democrats and media outrage over the deportation of Abrego Garcia, an MS-13 El Salvadorian illegal alien criminal who was hiding in Maryland, has been nothing short of despicable. Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year,” Leavitt said.

BONDI SAYS DEMOCRATS WHO VISIT KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA ARE ‘DETACHED FROM REALITY’

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) pledged to visit Abrego Garcia to show solidarity. Meanwhile, in his home state, Rachel Morin had her day in court posthumously on Monday when a jury convicted Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, an illegal immigrant, of her murder. Leavitt referred to the support for Abrego Garcia over Morin as “mind-boggling.”

Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) promised to join Van Hollen on his trip to El Salvador.