Legacy Media Goes From Ignoring To Endorsing Illegal Immigrant Crime
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent,” wrote Adam Smith in his treatise on moral sentiments. Traditional media publications are particularly guilty of this. Nothing affects them more than an illegal migrant convicted of a heinous crime.
““The Trump administration is deporting people to countries to which they have no ties, where many are detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled to,” writes Sarah Stillman for the New Yorker. What kind of people are deported, exactly? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a handy reference guide on the five “criminal illegal aliens” deported to Eswatini in July. The men’s convictions include: child rape, murder, robbery, second-degree theft. murder and burglary, first degree murder, and more.
Stillman notes that the men, none of whom are from Eswatini, “had lived in the United States for many years” and “were detained in a maximum security prison, without clear justification” after arriving in Eswatini.
How long deportees have resided in the United States is not really relevant. Imagine a tramp saying to a landlord: “But I’ve been squatting in your house for years now! You can’t just kick me out.” Now imagine that this tramp was convicted of a serious and violent crime. (RELATED: Legacy Media Turns On Water System for Another Criminal Migrant)
Orville Etoria, 62, had lived in New York for nearly 50 years, according to Stillman. Around the age of 33, he was “Convicted of second-degree murder, for shooting a man in a leather goods store, and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. Ultimately, an immigration judge issued a deportation order against him, meaning he could be deported once he gets out of prison.”
Murder.
He literally murdered someone. https://t.co/XuPsgzURls
– Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 25, 2025
But, Stillman points out, he obtained his baccalaureate in prison! He worked at a homeless shelter! He was taking care of his sick mother!
He will undoubtedly be a boon to his home country, Jamaica, to which he was reportedly repatriated from Eswatini. The Eswatini government is working to repatriate the remaining detainees to their home countries, an Eswatini government spokeswoman told the BBC.
“Nascimento Blair returned home in chains. The New York Times (NYT) begins its profile of a convicted kidnapper. Blair was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2005 for the crime and issued a final order of deportation in 2008, according to DHS. Blair also sold marijuana, shortly after he “started meeting other Jamaicans, some of whom were selling marijuana.
But, points out the New York Times, he started a business! He took classes at Columbia University! He was taking care of a sick fiancée!
Are you starting to notice a trend?
If I had a nickel for every time in the last 48 hours that a prestigious New York media outlet published a sympathetic article about someone confronted by immigration enforcement who turned out to have *literally killed someone in the United States*, I would have two nickels! https://t.co/utssXBBNc
– Bernard Stanford ✡︎ (@stanfordNYC) November 25, 2025
These articles read like testimonies from character witnesses. Great importance is given to the humanization of convicted criminals: interviews with their families, personal anecdotes, photo sessions. Remember the infamous “Maryland Man.” There is less emphasis on humanizing their victims.
There are migrants who are truly victims. Children and young people crossed the border illegally, often for the purpose of sex trafficking. At the height of the Biden era’s open-border craze, The Free Press called sex trafficking “America’s fastest-growing criminal enterprise.”
Sometimes the victim and their abuser receive exactly equal billing.
“Two men. One identity. They both paid the price,” says a New York Times headline. The article follows Dan Kluver, an American, who was defrauded for over a decade by Romeo Perez-Bravo, an illegal migrant of Guatemalan origin.
Perez-Bravo allegedly subjected Kluver to a suspended driver’s license and thousands of dollars in garnishments from the Internal Revenue Service (because Perez-Bravo reported his income under Kluver’s name, this pushed Kluver into a higher tax bracket.)
Perez-Bravo’s foray into identity theft began shortly after he entered the country illegally, according to the New York Times.
While looking for a job at a turkey processing company, “a A friend who worked at the factory introduced Perez-Bravo to someone who was selling sets of names, IDs and Social Security numbers for as little as $250.
The New York Times mentions that Perez-Bravo belongs to a text messaging group started by the pastor of an “immigrant church” in which participants warn each other about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in the area.
Why is the New York Times holding a photo shoot for an illegal alien who has stolen U.S. identities, gotten DUIs, and been repeatedly deported and re-entered the country illegally?
And for the record, he did not “borrow” any identities. He stole them. pic.twitter.com/GQuEtOhCxR
– Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) November 24, 2025
Here is another throughline through these stories. Migrants maintain close networks across the United States. Remember Blair’s ties to marijuana? Clearly, many migrants help each other evade law enforcement and, as in the case of Somali scammers in Minnesota, defraud the taxpayer. (RELATED: Somalis allegedly scammed blind people in Minnesota – and sent funds to Islamic terrorists)
Pérez-Bravo has accumulated “a series of DUIs and other minor offenses” during his first years in America, according to the New York Times. He was deported three times. He kept coming back and he kept buying new IDs, according to the New York Times.
In 2022, Perez-Bravo was involved in a traffic accident. He allegedly hit a grandfather and his 9-year-old granddaughter who were riding a motorized tricycle, injuring the young girl and killing the man.
Pérez-Bravo »remained at the scene, praying and cooperating with police as he handed over a license and registration for Dan Kluver. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. The accident was ruled an accident. But the victim’s family had filed a wrongful death lawsuit – with Kluver as a defendant.
But… Perez-Bravo cooks at church barbecues! He does family puzzles! He has five children!
Perez-Bravo allegedly broke the law for decades. He showed no respect for the well-being of the real Kluver, a law-abiding American. If Pérez-Bravo is not a prime candidate for expulsion, who is?
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