Apparently, Fired Police Officers Are Picking Who Gets Shipped Off to Prison in El Salvador by ICE?!

[Judi Lynn]

A former Milwaukee cop, who now works as a contractor for ICE, signed off on wrongly deporting a Venezuelan makeup artist.

By Charles P. PiercePublished: Apr 11, 2025 2:41 PM EDT

This whole mass-deportation thing gets better and better. On the same day that the Supreme Court hung the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the innocent Marylander currently residing in the El Salvador super-max, on the difference between facilitate and effectuate, the story of Andry Hernandez, the gay makeup artist wrongly deported to the same hellhole, took an even more maddening turn. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

The former Milwaukee Police Department officer involved in the recent deportation of a Venezuelan makeup artist to El Salvador had previously been placed on a list of Milwaukee County officers with credibility issues and was later fired by the department after crashing into a house while driving drunk. Cross, 62, is back in the news for his current job with CoreCivic, which runs many of the immigration detention centers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Cross signed a report that implicated Andry José Hernandez, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela, as affiliated with the notorious Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, based on his tattoos, according to court filings reviewed by USA TODAY.

Cross typed his name over the title “INVESTIGATOR” on the form. Critics have questioned the legality and effectiveness of having contract workers make such determinations. Hernandez, 31, has denied any connection to the gang. He sought shelter in the United States after he told authorities he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the protected groups allowed to claim asylum.

This guy, Cross, is a real piece of work. In fact, his record would indicate that he was more of a danger to the public safety than anyone we’ve trafficked off to Central America.

More:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64458387/milwaukee-police-deportation-el-salvador/

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https://archive.is/20250412023750/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64458387/milwaukee-police-deportation-el-salvador/

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