Rogan warns of Trump admin's "horrific" deportations
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Joe Rogan, the podcaster MAGAworld can't ignore, warned his listeners about "people who are not criminals ... getting lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons."
Why it matters: As the Trump administration "has rushed to carry out deportations as quickly as possible, making mistakes and raising concerns about due process along the way, the [right's] unified front in favor of President Trump's immigration purge is beginning to crack," the New York Times notes.
Case in point: A Salvadorian national living in Maryland legally was wrongly deported to El Salvador, the Department of Justice has admitted in court papers, Axios' Russell Contreras reports.
- The erroneous deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was first reported by The Atlantic. He hasn't been convicted of gang-related crimes.
Vice President Vance tweeted that a court document shows Abrego Garcia is "a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here."
Reality check: Garcia has not been convicted of gang-related crimes. A confidential informant told ICE that he was, according to a court filing.
- It's unclear if any of his tattoos are gang-related.
Rogan calls this case "horrific":
- Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer for The New Yorker who has reported extensively on immigration, dives into the ordeal of Andry José Hernández Romero, "The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported [to El Salvador] Under the Alien Enemies Act."
Blitzer draws on interviews with Andry's American attorneys, his mother, and members of his home community in Venezuela, where he had been a cherished part of the local theatre scene and, as one resident notes, a "great talent of our town."
- "There was something painfully desperate in their insistence," Blitzer writes, "as if seeing images of Andry for myself would help correct an otherwise stunning cultural misunderstanding."
- "One key misunderstanding seems to center on tattoos — the kinds that Andry, and many of the other deportees, have."
Go deeper: Trump takes Venezuelan deportation case to Supreme Court
