Most Bizarre Illegal Immigrant Story Yet – HotAir

I guess I am a total jerk, but according to The New York Times, I should be deeply concerned that an illegal alien from Jamaica who came here as an adult, was convicted of kidnapping and who spent most of his time in the United States, was deported back to his home country. 

Nope, not grappling with it at all. Anyone who is here illegally deserves to be deported, full stop. pic.twitter.com/uP5HSkuCtN

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) April 25, 2025

Apparently, the new standard for being deported is…well, NOBODY should ever get deported. If you think different, then you are a Nazi, or at least Nazi-adjacent. 

As is often the case, the headline tells the people who are inclined to have their opinions assigned to them by The New York Times exactly how they must feel about this poor, misunderstood nascent curer of diseases. Without him, or at least other ill-educated, badly behaved felons, humanity might be deprived of whatever gifts to humanity he surely will give us. 

This is how we are introduced to this convicted felon:

Nascimento Blair returned home in shackles.

He landed in Jamaica in February, 21 years after he had abandoned the island, seated next to dozens of his countrymen who were also handcuffed. As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston and felt the scorching Caribbean sun of his youth, Mr. Blair, 44, was greeted with suspicion.

Still dazed, he looked out of place. He had on the same winter clothes — a peacoat, turtleneck, gray suit and Chelsea boots — he had been wearing when U.S. immigration authorities had abruptly detained him on a frigid morning in New York City weeks earlier.

He noticed his slightly Americanized accent as he sat through hours of interrogation by Jamaican authorities at the airport. And he felt like an outcast as Jamaican officials snapped his mug shot, took his fingerprints and asked about his past.

Nascimento was “disappeared,” as we are now supposed to describe the illegal aliens who get deported.

When Obama deported 5.3 million illegal immigrants, somehow The Lightbringer managed to not be compared to Adolf Hitler. But Donald Trump is special. It’s not what he does or to whom he does it, but that he says or does something that it becomes intolerably evil. 

“They don’t look at you like a Jamaican,” Mr. Blair said. “They look at you like a criminal.” [Newsflash: he IS a criminal.]

Mr. Blair did not give them details about his past, an odyssey that began with a side hustle dealing marijuana in the New York suburbs as a 24-year-old Jamaican transplant, which led to a kidnapping conviction he disputed and a 15-year prison sentence he fulfilled.

It was his criminal past that had gotten him deported from the United States, where he had been rebuilding his life and seeking redemption. He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

None of it would stave off deportation: He was among the first few thousand immigrants scattered across the globe during the early days of President Trump’s deportation campaign.

That, my friends, is the first 8 paragraphs of the story, framing just how unfair Donald Trump’s policy of deporting criminals is. Rather than embracing kidnappers as model citizens (Nascimento isn’t a citizen, but an illegal alien), Trump cruelly sends them home. And not just any home, but one where people from around the world flock to vacation.

It’s cruel beyond measure, we are to think, because Jamaican authorities look askance at felons. Felons are human beings too, even if they abuse others by taking them by force. 

I do have to admit that this is consistent, at least. Killers, wife beaters, gang members–anybody who set foot in the United States–have an instant right to be her and be fed, housed, and provided better lives than ordinary citizens because they are now on the approved list of “oppressed” people to whom we should defer. 

But to Mr. Blair and his supporters, his life story was one of rehabilitation, nuanced and filled with qualities that they believe Mr. Trump’s deportation machine disregards as it flies out immigrants en masse.

His removal from the United States and dizzying journey back to the Caribbean raises a fundamental question Americans are grappling with as they consider the president’s immigration crackdown: Who deserves to stay?

Deserves to stay? Americans are “grappling” with this difficult question.

Not really. I can confidently say that the vast majority of Americans are NOT grappling with this question at all, and I would love to see the evidence that they are presented in this “news” story. 

This isn’t news. It signals New York Times readers to adopt an opinion, and most of them will dutifully do so. 

And yet…those same people will say anybody who disagrees with them is in a cult. Only they are free thinkers, devoted to science, reason, and compassion. A compassion that sacrifices Americans to the depraved impulses of gang members and criminals–and no, I am not saying all illegal immigrants are in that category, merely that these mental automatons don’t care a whit if they are. 

These are the people who believe “The Science says…” is a compelling argument, no matter that they have no interest in actual science. If The New York Times or another elite institution suddenly discovers there are 198 genders and that sex is on a spectrum, they simply repeat it without a moment’s thought. 

This is what it means to be “educated” today. 

I went to and taught at a liberal arts college, and in those ancient days, going back two millennia, the liberal arts were intended to teach us how to reason and think critically. 

Now being educated means simply repeating whatever mantra the Establishment assigns to you.