Stories on Cruelty and Errors in the Trump Mass Deportation Campaign

A pair of news stories that I ran across this morning in my estimation provide a vision into the kinds of stories we will likely see in the future.

NBC News (“An organ donor for his ailing brother was detained by ICE and faces deportation”)  reports on but another heartbreaking case of the Trump administration’s relentless mass deportation campaign.  “José Gregorio González came from Venezuela to help his brother, who has kidney failure. Now, the brother’s lifesaving transplant is at risk and his doctors warn time is running out.”

CNN reports that “the Trump administration conceded in a court filing that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador `because of an administrative error’ and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody. . . .  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national . . . in 2019 was granted protected status by an immigration judge, prohibiting the federal government from sending him to El Salvador. . . . . The filing, first reported by The Atlantic, appears to mark the first time the administration has admitted an error related to its recent deportation flights to El Salvador, which are now at the center of a fraught legal battle.”

Expect more stories of this type to make headlines in the next four years.

UPDATE April 1, 4 p.m. EST: 

More questionable deportations.  See Jonathan Blitzer,The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act, New Yorker.  Expect more.

KJ