Summary:
The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media.
White House officials have spent weeks trying to justify their deportation of Abrego Garcia, even after admitting in court that sending him to El Salvador was an “administrative error,” claiming with no evidence that he is a violent criminal and gang member.
At one point, the Department of Homeland Security posted online an order of protection that Jennifer Vasquez Sura had sought, but later abandoned, against her husband. That order contained Vasquez Sura’s home address, unredacted.
“I don’t feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral and people have all sorts of opinions,” Vasquez Sura told The Washington Post. “So, this is definitely a bit terrifying. I’m scared for my kids.”
Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, is now staying in an undisclosed location with her three children while Abrego Garcia remains thousands of miles away, despite a Supreme Court order requiring the U.S. government to facilitate his return. Both the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele say that Abrego Garcia will not be coming back to the U.S., and Vasquez Sura has received hateful comments and taunts on social media.
Then it seems that they should have left out “mistakenly” if they only report verifiable things that they can prove, including motives.
The media needs to not treat this as normal or blundering. MAGA know what they are doing: making this country intolerable to immigrants.
This isn’t a purity test, it’s criticism. That’s a perfectly fine thing to do.
It’s not "the media"s job to tell anyone how to feel about anything. It’s not the media’s job to say “this is good” or “this is bad”. It IS their job to report the facts, paint the picture as accurately as they can with those facts, and leave it up to the reader/viewer to make up their own minds.
Putting things into context is one thing, but treating any situation as inherently good, evil, desired, undesired, etc is not their job; they’re just there to report what’s happening. Goddamn I hate what cable news has done to journalism.
The administration has admitted to an “administrative error” which makes “mistakenly” an accurate description.
Which is why I said the media is lying for the Trump administration: this is the lie that the administration told, and the media repeats it for them.
The fact is that they didn’t give a fuck if they could deport him or not.
Saying he was “mistakenly deported” makes it sound like they cared one bit. There was no error; the judge issued an order asking for any evidence of that, and he got crickets back.