The corporate press has spent years trying to convince Americans that criminals are actually victims, especially when their stories can be weaponized against President Trump’s immigration enforcement. But this week, The New Yorker crossed a line that even some on the left could not ignore. Their attempt to glorify a violent offender collapsed the moment real facts surfaced, exposing yet another media narrative built on omission and manipulation.
The drama began when The New Yorker posted a message on X painting deported Jamaican national Orville Etoria as a tragic figure. The magazine wrote, “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 message was crafted to provoke moral outrage. It compared a convicted murderer to enslaved people and blamed President Trump’s immigration policies before providing any real context.
Readers were not fooled. Within hours, the X Community Notes feature stepped in and did what legacy media would not. The note stated, “Orville Etoria has multiple serious felonies including armed robbery and murder. He held a U.S. lawful permanent resident status, which can and was revoked following his criminal convictions.” That correction instantly destroyed the sympathetic framing The New Yorker attempted to build.
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