Yet another deported Venezuelan illegal alien whom the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says is a Tren de Aragua (TdA) terror gang member is the subject of a tearful tale.
This time, the dangerous desperado is Merwil Gutièrrez, whom The New York Times falsely called an “immigrant” in its yammering yarn, which was headlined thusly:
ICE Deported Him. His Father Heard Nothing for Months. Then, a Call. Merwil Gutièrrez is one of many immigrants across the United States who have been taken into custody by federal authorities, their whereabouts unknown or unclear.
The Times strongly suggests that Gutièrrez, aka Merwil Alberto Gutierrez Flores, was wrongly deported — or “disappeared,” as far-left Democrats and illegal-alien sympathizers say. In fact, DHS alleges, he is a dangerous criminal.
Times Story
After calling Salvadoran illegal, wife-beater, MS-13 terror gang member, and human trafficking suspect Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “Maryland father,” the Times got down to business.
“Mr. Gutièrrez and his father arrived in the United States in 2023 after reaching the border with Mexico, where they used a Biden-era mobile app to start the process of applying for asylum and were put on a bus to New York City,” the far-left, pro-illegal-alien newspaper reported:
They lived quietly in the Bronx, his family said, and Mr. Gutièrrez worked an overnight shift sorting packages near Kennedy Airport. They were continuing the often yearslong effort to obtain asylum and remained without legal status.
On Feb. 24, when he was returning to his apartment building, law enforcement officials descended. They accused Mr. Gutièrrez of gun crimes and arrested him, though there is no indication charges against him were ultimately pursued. …
On that February day, his cousin Luis Acosta heard a commotion outside of their apartment building and poked his head out of a third-floor window. He said he saw Mr. Gutièrrez talking to two men outside when officers with “N.Y.P.D.” and “F.B.I.” emblazoned on their clothing swarmed the building.
The agents asked Mr. Gutièrrez which of the men standing outside the building was named Angel. He did not answer the question and instead gave them his own name, Mr. Acosta said. Even though Mr. Gutièrrez was not the man they were looking for, an agent said to take him anyway, Mr. Acosta recalled. With that, Mr. Gutièrrez was handcuffed, pushed into a car and driven away.
In May, DHS clearly explained why Gutièrrez was deported, first to El Salvador’s CECOT terrorist prison, then to Venezuela. There, the Times reported, his sister embraced him. The newspaper continued to claim that Gutièrrez is pure as the driven snow:
But there is no evidence that authorities in New York sought to follow through on … charges. The Police Department has repeatedly said that there are “no arrests on file” for Mr. Gutièrrez, and no cases connected to him appear in state or federal databases.
The Real Record
Whatever doesn’t “appear in state or federal databases,” DHS reported — again, in May — that Gutièrrez and his padre did not enter the country using the Biden administration’s unlawful smartphone application.
On June 21, 2023, the United States Border Patrol (USBP) initially encountered and arrested Gutierrez Flores attempting to illegally enter the United States at or near Paso Del Norte, Texas.
The USBP found Gutierrez Flores had unlawfully entered the United States from Mexico … at a time and place other than as designated by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States. The USBP transported Gutierrez Flores to the border patrol station for further processing using the E3/IDENT and IAFIS Systems. [Emphasis added.]
Perhaps the Times doesn’t understand that even the Biden administration required that CPB mobile requests for appointments for asylum claims be made in an approved region before attempting to cross the border. Those who landed at the border without an appointment could not apply for asylum. Not that it mattered. For the administration, again, released the pair to ensconce themselves in New York City. Once there, favorable notice in the Times should one or both be deported was guaranteed.
And it’s worth observing that the Biden administration unlawfully released the men. Gutièrrez’s immigration hearing was scheduled for February 1, 2027, four years after he was caught and released.
As for Gutièrrez’s gun crimes, on February 24, New York cops arrested and charged him as follows:
Criminal Possession of A Weapon-2nd Degree: Loaded Firearm … Criminal Possession Weapon-2nd Degree: Loaded Firearm On School Grounds … Criminal Possession Stolen Property … Unlawful Poss Certain Ammunition Feeding Devices.
Importantly, under “criminal affiliations,” the deportation record reveals what is most dangerous about the man:
Subject has been identified as a[n] Associate/Active of Tren de Aragua.
That, of course, isn’t true, the Times claimed, citing Gutièrrez’s attorney and family:
The Trump administration has repeatedly defended its decision to send hundreds of Venezuelan men to CECOT, claiming that many had ties to or tattoos associated with the street gang Tren de Aragua.
Mr. Gutièrrez has no tattoos, according to a federal immigration document and to his family and lawyers, who insist he has never belonged to a gang.
As if they would admit his membership if he were a member. And ever since February, Papa Gutièrrez “had stared at his son’s bed wondering if he would ever see him resting there again.”
“Another SOB STORY from the @nytimes,” DHS wrote on X over a screenshot of the inaccurate headline.
Previous Times Falsehood
The erroneous report on Gutièrrez suggests that the Times just can’t get the facts straight. In March, it falsely claimed that TdA was not tied to the corrupt dictatorship of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
In fact, a former top CIA operative told the Miami Herald, the gang is a paramilitary arm of the regime that it sent to the United States.
As for the media at large, they have repeatedly fallen for tales of woe, including outright deportation hoaxes, at least one of which has been used to swindle money out of the gullible.
