Michael Cohen - Deported by Glitch, Buried by Silence
I used to believe I was on the inside; a consigliere with a front-row seat to power. But there’s a difference between sitting next to the devil and becoming his spokesperson. And if you’re still defending this administration’s immigration policy—its reckless, cruel, and morally bankrupt war on the vulnerable—well then, congratulations. You’re part of the machinery. And that machinery, like all machines of inhumanity, doesn’t make mistakes. It makes victims.
Let me start here: my father is a Holocaust survivor. And I’ve heard him say more times than I can count, “When they come for the innocent, silence is complicity.” It was one of the reasons I became a lawyer: to be a voice when others were voiceless, to stand up when others sat down. And now, under President Trump’s second reign of terror, that silence is deafening. ICE, under his command, isn’t just an agency. It’s an executioner’s sword—dull, blind, and swinging wide.
You probably missed the late Friday court filing; that’s the trick. They bury their sins in weekend news cycles, praying you’re too busy grilling hot dogs and burgers to notice the screams. But in this filing, ICE quietly admitted what whistleblowers, lawyers, and human rights advocates have been shouting: they got it wrong. Again.
A man known only by the initials O.C.G. was deported to Mexico. ICE claimed he said he wasn’t afraid to return. Turns out, that wasn’t true. The “evidence”? A comment logged by a glitchy software tool—ICE’s Orwellian-sounding “ENFORCE Alien Removal Module.” I mean, for fuck’s sake… who names these things? Dr. Evil? Upon closer inspection, no ICE officer could confirm ever speaking to the man about his fear. So he was deported based on a typo, a bad click, or a broken algorithm. Welcome to American justice, Trump-style.
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