The New Yorker has been ripped for peddling a gushing sob story about an illegal migrant and convicted murderer who was recently booted from the United States by the Trump administration.
Jamaican Orville Etoria, 62, was one of five illegal migrants shipped off to Africa in September as part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.
His case was featured in a lengthy feature in the New Yorker this week, months after the Department of Homeland Security ripped a similar story on him in the New York Times as “disgraceful and disgusting.”
A teaser for the New Yorker’s story on X quoted Etoria as crying about how being taken “to another land in shackles and chains” helped him “imagine how the slaves might have felt” — without focusing on his violent record for murder and other gun crimes.
“I see you conveniently forgot to mention here that he was not a US citizen and had spent 25 years in prison for murder,” one person griped on X.
The teaser on X even got a brutal reader’s note adding much-needed context.
It read: “Orville Etoria has multiple serious felonies, including armed robbery and murder. He held a US lawful permanent resident status, which can and was revoked following his criminal convictions.”
Etoria, who came to the US from Jamaica as a child, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years for gunning down a man in a leather goods store in 1996.
He was released from prison in 2021 before the Trump administration ordered his deportation earlier this year.
The serial criminal also had prior arrests for criminal possession of a weapon, armed robbery and forcible theft with a deadly weapon, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Critics also accused the highbrow magazine of painting Etoria in an overly sympathetic light by quoting a relative saying: “Orville isn’t a monster.”
“Murder. He literally murdered someone,” one person raged in response on X.
“He was here 50 years, 25 of them in prison for murder. Nice guy! He has been such a bonus to our society,” another chimed in.
“I think it is fine to deport people convicted of LITERAL MURDER,” an X user said.
The backlash against the mag comes just months after the New York Times was ridiculed for framing a story on Etoria in a similar way.
At the time, DHS slammed the coverage as “disgraceful and disgusting.”
“If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, you could end up in CECOT, Eswatini, South Sudan, or another third country. President Trump and Secretary Noem are using every tool available to get criminal illegal aliens out of American communities and out of our country. Our message is clear: Criminals are not welcome in the United States,” DHS spokesperson said in the wake of the NYT story.
“Why does the New York Times continue to peddle sob stories of criminal illegal aliens? When will they finally shed light on their victims? Every single day President Trump and Secretary Noem fight for justice for American victims of illegal alien crime and nearly every single day the media ignores these victims and their families.”
The Post reached out to DHS over the New Yorker’s article but didn’t hear back immediately.
