The New Yorker has been ripped for peddling a gushing sob story about an illegal migrant and convicted murderer who was recently booted from the United States by the Trump administration.
Jamaican Orville Etoria, 62, was one of five illegal migrants shipped off to Africa in September as part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.
His case was featured in a lengthy feature in the New Yorker this week, months after the Department of Homeland Security ripped a similar story on him in the New York Times as “disgraceful and disgusting.”
A teaser for the New Yorker’s story on X quoted Etoria as crying about how being taken “to another land in shackles and chains” helped him “imagine how the slaves might have felt” — without focusing on his violent record for murder and other gun crimes.
“I see you conveniently forgot to mention here that he was not a US citizen and had spent 25 years in prison for murder,” one person griped on X.
The teaser on X even got a brutal reader’s note adding much-needed context.
Hellbound and Down 