New Yorker publishes sympathetic piece for convicted murderer deported to Eswatini

Fox News' Bill Melugin pointed out in a post to X, saying, "He’s a convicted murderer with a deportation order from a federal immigration judge."

The New Yorker had captioned their article on X, "Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. 'It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,' he said."

The article highlights Etoria, as well as several others who have been deported from the US and are now residing in foreign prisons. The Department of Homeland Security's Tricia McLaughlin said of the deportees were all convicted of serious crimes, and that the crimes were “so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back."

The piece goes deeper into Etoria's past, saying that he was born in Jamaica, and "came to Brooklyn at the age of twelve, in 1976" and had lived in New York "for nearly fifty years."

In 1997, however, Etoria was convicted of murder after he shot a man to death in a store. In addition to those crimes, his rap sheet also included criminal possession of a weapon, armed robbery, and forcible theft with a deadly weapon.

"Following his criminal convictions, Etoria's green card was revoked. Etoria was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2009. Sixteen years later, this dangerous individual is finally off our streets and out of the country thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem," DHS said in a statement regarding the deportation when it took place.