Vance Responds To Report About Deportation Incident

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Rachel Stevenson
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Oh, The Atlantic—the gift that keeps on giving if you enjoy watching pompous elitists faceplant into their own narratives.

They really thought they had something with that Signal app “bombshell,” didn’t they? Big, dramatic headline: Top Trump Officials Chatting Anti-Houthi Ops on Encrypted App! The horror! Except, plot twist—it wasn’t a scandal, it wasn’t even news. The encrypted app in question was government-approved, no classified info was leaked, and the only breach was when Jeffrey Goldberg, anti-Trump pontiff of the lefty elite, got added by accident. You’d think he found out the nuclear codes the way he clutched his pearls. Instead, it was just another empty yawn of a story that evaporated in the real world faster than Biden’s approval rating.

But you see, The Atlantic doesn’t operate in the real world. They live in the D.C. cocktail-party terrarium, where everyone thinks they’re a modern-day Woodward & Bernstein if they can find a way to jam “Trump” and “catastrophe” into the same sentence. Newsflash: the American people have heard it all. They’ve been through Russia hoaxes, sham impeachments, and non-stop media tantrums. And guess what? They’re still here, Trump is still here, and those approval numbers are still defying gravity. The Signal story barely made a ripple outside MSNBC’s green room.

And just when you think The Atlantic might hang it up for the day, here comes the next “blockbuster”—a sad, misty-eyed deportation story that’s supposed to make us all gasp and drop our support for Trump’s wildly popular deportation agenda. Cue the violins: a father, ripped from his family, whisked away to a country he hasn’t seen since he was a teenager. Oh, and by the way—just a teeny tiny inconvenient detail buried deep in the story—he’s a member of MS-13.

You know, that gang Trump labeled a foreign terrorist organization? Yeah, that MS-13. But don’t worry, says The Atlantic, he’s also a husband and father! That’s the real headline here, folks. He has a child. So let’s forget the gang ties, the violent background, the court determination that he’s a threat to public safety. He’s a dad. Can’t deport dads, right?

Wrong.

Being a father doesn’t grant you amnesty from law enforcement, and certainly not from immigration law. MS-13 doesn’t stop being a terrorist group because someone has a kid. And here’s the kicker: the court decided back in 2019 that this guy posed enough of a danger to the community that they granted him withholding of removal only because El Salvador was too dangerous for him. That’s not a clean bill of moral health—that’s a legal technicality. You can’t stay in the U.S. indefinitely because your hometown is rough. Especially not when you’re part of the reason it’s rough.

Of course, The Atlantic hopes you won’t notice any of that. They’d rather you focus on the tears and the tragedy, just like they did with the Venezuelan soccer player and the gay barber who were also deported—until it came out they were part of Tren de Aragua, another charming little gang on the State Department’s naughty list. The media is either too lazy or too complicit to do basic vetting. They just slap together their hit pieces, wrap them in emotional manipulation, and hope no one checks the footnotes. Spoiler alert: we checked.

JD Vance responded:

And still, the deportation planes take off. Trump’s policy isn’t just holding—it’s winning. Because the American people are done with open-borders sob stories. They want safety. They want sovereignty. They want results. And they know that a president who enforces immigration law—really enforces it—is worth a dozen Atlantic editorials full of self-righteous drivel.

So pack those bags, fellas. Membership in a foreign terror group isn’t a Get Out of Deportation Free card. And to The Atlantic: you tried. Again. And Trump beat you. Again. It’s starting to look like a pattern. But hey, keep those stories coming—we can always use a laugh.

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