WASHINGTON, D.C. (WBFF) — Speaking at a White House briefing on Wednesday, Patty Morin expressed her displeasure with Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s visit to El Salvador concerning the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man mistakenly deported now being held in a Salvadoran prison.

Morin, whose daughter Rachel Morin was brutally murdered in Harford County, recounted the horrific details of her daughter’s death. “Rocks, still stained with her blood. He used them to hammer her head against those rocks. They say at least 20 times,” she said. “These are the kind of criminals that we need to remove from our county.”

Morin criticized Sen. Van Hollen’s trip, questioning the priorities of American lawmakers.

“Why are we not protecting the American citizens? It’s just common sense, why are we not protecting our children,” Morin said.

She expressed frustration that the senator, who she claimed barely acknowledged her daughter’s brutal death, would use taxpayer money to travel to El Salvador.

“To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledge my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother, so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen,” Morin said.

“Why does that person have more right than I do? Or my daughter or my grandchildren? I don’t understand this,” she continued.