There’s a heartbreaking story about a guy who came over from Cuba at 12 years old during the 1980 Cuban boat lift, joined a gang in Miami at 14, and took a plea bargain and served six years in prison after an attempted murder in a gang conflict. Then he straightened out his life and got work as a specialty plumber.
Until the day that he went in for a routine immigration check-in, and was promptly deported overseas to Eswatini in Africa—a country he has no connection to. He is now beyond the reach of U.S. courts. Instead he is in a legal black hole and may never go free.
He has been falsely portrayed by the administration as one of the worst of the worst, and his incarceration has cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars in bribes to Eswatini.
(This is also happening in dozens of other countries, including El Salvador when 250 Venezuelans were sent to their notorious maximum-security prison CECOT.)
I feel terrible for this guy. He had become a productive member of society and has four grown daughters, all U.S. citizens.
And the kicker to all this? He was an enthusiastic supporter of Trump, telling his daughters to vote for Trump.
Way to go, dumbass. Trump sure changed everything, all right.