DHS rages over what it calls a NYT 'sob story' about convicted Jamaican murderer deported by Trump
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has criticized The New York Times for its coverage of a Jamaican murderer who was deported by the Trump administration in July.

The Times titled its article, “The Man Who’d Served His Time In U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison.” The opening sentence detailed how Orville Etoria shot and killed a man in Brooklyn nearly 30 years ago.

“DISGRACEFUL AND DISGUSTING! The failing @NYTimes is pushing another appalling sob story for a criminal illegal alien. Orville Etoria was convicted of MURDER. It is absolutely revolting that the New York Times is defending convicted murderers over American citizens. DHS will continue enforcing the law at full speed—without apology,” DHS posted on X on Monday, accusing the publication of downplaying the severity of Etoria’s 1996 crime.

Jamaican migrant, Orville Etoria (right), was convicted of murder, robbery, and weapons possession in 1997 and deported with four others in July.

This summer, the Trump administration ordered Etoria to be deported to Eswatini, a small southern African country where he’s not a citizen. 

In July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the deportation of five deportees from Vietnam, Laos, Cuba and Yemen, including Etoria.

“A safe third country deportation flight to Eswatini in Southern Africa has landed. This flight carried individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X at the time.

“These depraved monsters have been terrorizing American communities,” she continued, adding that they are now “off of American soil,” she added.

DHS said Jamaica and other countries refused to accept Eswatini, though Jamaican officials have since disputed that claim.

“Orville Etoria, an illegal alien from Jamaica, is a convicted MURDERER… Sixteen years later this MURDERER is off our streets and OUT of our country. President Trump and Secretary Noem are utilizing every tool available to remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities and our country,” DHS stated to Fox News Digital.

Etoria remains in Africa alongside the four others.

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