From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Escalation 2: They're saying it was an error...
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 15:06:45 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
...but it looks a lot more like malice:
'When a Guatemalan man sued the Trump administration in March for
deporting him to Mexico despite a fear of persecution, immigration
officials had a response: The man told them himself he was not afraid to
be sent there.
But in a late Friday court filing, the administration acknowledged that
this claim â a key plank of the governmentâs response to a high-stakes
class action lawsuit â was based on erroneous information.'
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/trump-administration-another-error-high-profile-deportation-00355377>
'Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials now say they have no
record of anyone being told by the man, identified only by the initials
O.C.G. in court papers, that he was unafraid of going to Mexico. The
error, they say, was attributable to a âsoftware toolâ known as ICEâs
âENFORCE alien removal moduleâ that tracks individual deportation cases
and allows staff to insert comments.
âUpon further investigation ⦠ICE was unable to identify an officer or
officers who asked O.C.G. if he feared a return to Mexico,â said Brian
Ortega, assistant field office director for ICEâs Enforcement and
Removal Operations, in a sworn statement to the federal judge overseeing
the lawsuit.'
Riiiiiiiiiight.
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