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.
It read: “Orville Etoria has multiple serious felonies, including armed robbery and murder. He held a US lawful permanent resident status, which can and was revoked following his criminal convictions.”
Etoria, who came to the US from Jamaica as a child, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years for gunning down a man in a leather goods store in 1996.
He was released from prison in 2021 before the Trump administration ordered his deportation earlier this year.
The serial criminal also had prior arrests for criminal possession of a weapon, armed robbery and forcible theft with a deadly weapon, the Department of Homeland Security said. --->READ MORE HERE
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Kristi Noem's department accuses publication of defending convicted criminals over American citizens
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has blasted The New York Times for its reporting on a convicted Jamaican murderer who was deported by the Trump administration in July.
The Times ran its headline as,"The Man Who’d Served His Time In U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison." The first sentence of the article explained how Orville Etoria had shot and killed a man in Brooklyn nearly 30 years ago.
"DISGRACEFUL AND DISGUSTING! The failing @NYTimes is peddling another disgusting sob story for a criminal illegal alien. Orville Etoria was convicted of MURDER. It is absolutely revolting that the New York Times is actively defending convicted murderers over American citizens. DHS will continue enforcing the law at full speed—without apology," DHS responded in a post on X on Monday, accusing the publication of downplaying the seriousness of Etoria’s horrific 1996 crime.
Etoria was sentenced to 25 years to life and given a deportation order in 2009.
As well as murder, DHS has said Etoria’s criminal history included armed robbery, possession of a weapon, and forcible theft.
During his sentence at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, Etoria earned a bachelor’s degree via the Hudson Link program at Mercy College and graduated in 2018. He also pursued a master’s in divinity.
After Etoria was released in 2021, the Biden administration allowed him to remain in the U.S. so long as he checked in with ICE and despite the standing deportation order.
This summer, the Trump administration ordered Etoria to be deported to Eswatini, a small southern African country where he's not a citizen. --->READ MORE HERE
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