As Signalgate fades into darkness, joining the lengthy list of failed attempt to manufacture a Trump presidency incident, The Atlantic has a new issue. A fresh Trump hit bit it published this week has been exposed as a rest.
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The major media is scrambling to undermine Trump’s mass deportation plan, pushing the fake narrative that, despite the government’s focus on removing legal illegal aliens second, innocent persons are being swept up alongside illegal alien crew members and criminals.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the director of The Atlantic, has a track record of publishing false hit pieces on Trump. In 2020, he pushed a rejected state that Trump called fallen soldiers “losers” and” fools”, which yet he afterwards admitted might be misleading. In 2024, he spread another false narrative about Trump being upset over a soldier’s grave costs — dismissed by other reporters but also published by The Atlantic. His background of deceptive reporting makes suspicion of his work not only determined but necessary.
On Monday, The Atlantic jumped on the innocents-swept-up position, publishing a part that claimed,” The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with secured legitimate status and falsely deported him to El Salvador”.
Here’s how The Atlantic described the man:
Court filings show Abrego Garcia came to the United States at age 16 in 2011 after fleeing gang threats in his native El Salvador. In 2019 he received a form of protected legal status known as “withholding of removal” from a U. S. immigration judge who found he would likely be targeted by gangs if deported back.
Abrego Garcia, who is married to a U. S. citizen and has a 5-year-old disabled child who is also a U. S. citizen, has no criminal record in the United States, according to his attorney. The Trump administration does not claim he has a criminal record, but called him a “danger to the community” and an active member of MS-13, the Salvadoran gang that Trump has declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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What a sob story, right? An innocent family man got caught up in the raids and was wrongly deported alongside human garbage. How horrible. But there are some important details that The Atlantic left out of its report. Six years ago, an immigration judge ruled that Garcia was, in fact, an MS-13 member, a flight risk, and a danger to the community.
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ICE arrested Abrego-Garcia on March 12, 2025, specifically due to his prominent role in MS-13. Here’s what the court filing, which The Atlantic linked, actually says.
During a bond hearing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (‘ ICE’ ) stated that a confidential informant had advised that Abrego-Garcia was an active member of the criminal gang MS-13.
In fact, it was determined six years ago that Abrego-Garcia was an MS-13 member.
— John Hasson ( @SonofHas ) April 1, 2025
Oh, and that narrative that Abrego-Garcia was just an innocent family member and an administrative error got him accidentally deported? Yeah, that was a lie.
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According to court documents, despite a grant of withholding of removal, Abrego-Garcia was placed on a flight to El Salvador as an alternate when others were removed. While internal forms noted his protected status, his removal was ultimately justified based on a final order of removal and his gang affiliation. The deportation was carried out in good faith, as his presence in the U. S. posed a public safety risk.
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Here’s the declaration admitting to the administrative error pic. twitter.com/vgF9KmDCJo— John Hasson ( @SonofHas ) April 1, 2025
This is far from the first time the media has deliberately misled the public about deported gang members. Just last week, we learned that a Venezuelan soccer player and a gay barber, both of whom got their own sob stories in the media, were actually members of Tren de Aragua, the violent Venezuelan gang that is a designated foreign terrorist organization.
This latest effort by The Atlantic comes in the wake of Goldberg’s attempt to portray the Signal group chat he was somehow included in as having discussed classified war plans, even though none of the information discussed in the chat was actually classified.
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