Trump’s Deportation Squad Outsources Law to Chaos, Loses Suspects in Act
KEY POINTS
- •DHS reported 675,000 deportations by late January but faced multiple lawsuits and public backlash for illegal removals.
- •High-profile cases include Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores deported before trial for a massive jewelry theft and Any Lucia Lopez Belloza wrongfully deported over Thanksgiving despite a judge’s order.
- •Other botched removals involved a Guatemalan man sent to Mexico then Guatemala, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador before being returned to the US.
Since late January, the Department of Homeland Security’s stampede for President Trump’s mass deportation record shattered the modest record of common sense. They deported 675,000 undocumented individuals but managed to accidentally send a suspected mastermind behind America's largest jewelry heist to Ecuador before trial—jewels still MIA—and argued over whether the case can ever be refiled like a Netflix reboot no one asked for. Meanwhile, Babson’s Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was deported over Thanksgiving despite a judge’s 'don’t deport' memo, and is now ineligible for a visa because the government swears she had full 'due process' in 2015—bungs tighter than the Fort Knox vault. Guatemalan O.C.G. was tossed to Mexico, then Guatemala, all while evading death threats and hiding better than Carmen Sandiego. Kilmar Abrego Garcia found himself bouncing from El Salvador’s prison back to US courtrooms after a mistaken deportation and a kidnapping trip to CECOT prison. And Andry Romero, a hairdresser labeled a Venezuelan gang member because of tattoos and a tragic misunderstanding, was fast-tracked to the CECOT prison before a judge said, 'Actually, come back please.' Spokespeople dutifully claimed all these glitches keep Americans safe—by deporting innocence faster than logic can catch up. Also, DHS is planning a $38 billion immigrant mega-jail, proving bureaucratic chaos has a budget now.
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DHS sets mass deportation record by accidentally binge-removing innocent people and letting actual criminals skip trial. Spoiler: no one got the memo. Deportation or game of hot potato? You decide.
They deported 675,000 people, yet the jewelry thief escapes and a college student is TGIF’d out of safety. Deportation strategy or glitch marathon?
When your immigration policy feels like a badly scripted soap opera: deported suspects vanish, students disappear, and tattooed hairdressers go to prison uninvited.
Source: Axios | Published: 2/14/2026 | Author: Brittany Gibson
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