Who's ready for another deportation sob story? Who's ready for a lot more deportation sob stories? I know I am. Is Columbia Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil out of the country yet? A quick check with Grok says that no, he's still here fighting it out in the courts, despite an immigration judge ordering his removal back in September.
The New Yorker has the sad tale of a Jamaican national who'd lived in New York for nearly 50 years — illegally. He was lucky he was able to skirt the law for that long. In any case, according to The New Yorker, Orville Etoria says that being shackled and put on a plane to Eswatini helped him imagine how the slaves might have felt.
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. “It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,” he said. https://t.co/ikbiDVyif8
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 24, 2025
"Disappeared to a Foreign Prison." First of all, he is a foreigner in the United States, no matter how long he's lived here illegally, and second, a foreign prison? Is there something The New Yorker left out of its post? Community Notes to the rescue.
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Orville Etoria has multiple serious felonies including armed robbery and murder.
He held a U.S. lawful permanent resident status, which can and was revoked following his criminal convictions.
Armed robbery and murder? And I'm supposed to feel bad for this guy?
According to Newsweek, Etoria had convictions for murder, criminal possession of a weapon, armed robbery, and forcible theft with a deadly weapon.
In a press release, DHS criticized The New York Times for publishing a "sob story" about Etoria, expressing concern about media focus on the deportee rather than his offenses or the victims.
"Why does the New York Times continue to peddle sob stories of criminal illegal aliens? When will they finally shed light on their victims?"
He was deported back in July, but The New Yorker has decided to make him its immigration poster boy.
Sarah Stillman reports for The New Yorker:
Initially, I’d focussed on two groups of third-country deportees, known to human-rights lawyers as the South Sudan Eight and the Eswatini Five. The first group, from countries including Myanmar, Mexico, and Laos, had been deported, in early July, to South Sudan, a nation struggling to recover from a civil war. Days later, the second group—five men from Cuba, Jamaica, Laos, Vietnam, and Yemen, all of whom had lived in the U.S. for many years—had been deported to the southern African nation of Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland. There, they were detained in a maximum-security prison, without clear justification.
"Without clear justification." Except for the murders.
I say it all the time, but liberals do not want a single illegal alien deported, not even the ones convicted of murder or rape or assault. They just want ICE to go away and for the illegals to be left alone. That's not what we voted for a year ago.
This story is about a man whose green card was revoked because he'd been convicted—not accused, but *convicted*—of murder, armed robbery, and forcible theft with a deadly weapon. https://t.co/goz0lcLGNo
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 25, 2025
Your FAKE sob stories don’t work on us anymore. He killed an innocent person. He belongs in shackles. pic.twitter.com/FfT5HDdNUt
— Savannah Insights 🎙️ (@BasedSavannah) November 25, 2025
If he thinks that's like slavery, he should imagine what the victim he murdered thought.
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) November 25, 2025
Murderers often get transported “in shackles and chains,” guys.
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) November 25, 2025
I’m not a fancy New Yorker “journalist”, but it feels like if the intent was to make people not support deportation, don’t write 3,000 words about a murderer being deported?
— Kane 謝凱堯 (@kane) November 25, 2025
Have Stillman name one illegal alien she thinks should be deported. Just one.
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