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DHS Fact Checks NYT’s ‘Sob Story’ About Deported Illegal Alien, Convicted Kidnapper
The Department of of Homeland Security has thoroughly rejected a bizarre piece from the New York Times, which paints a sympathetic view of a Jamaican illegal alien who spent 15 years in prison after being convicted of kidnapping.
Titled “21 Years Later, Deported Back to a ‘Home’ He Never Knew,” the piece paints a sympathetic view of Nascimento Blair, 44, who was deported back to his home country of Jamaica back in February. Blair was captured by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents back in February, who had been living in the country illegally for more than two decades after overstaying a temporary visa.
A judge ordered his removal in 2008 after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2006 for kidnapping a neighbor he claimed had stolen marijuana from him. Blair continued to live in the United States without action from the Biden Administration after he was released from prison in 2020.
The article, written by Luis Ferre-Sadurni, claimed that Blair was “rebuilding his life and seeking redemption” before he was detained by ICE and deported back to his home country.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin had harsh words for the liberal outlet’s piece, which she said “conveniently glossed over” Blair’s serious criminal history.
“The New York Times conveniently glossed over that this illegal alien, Nascimento Blair is a convicted kidnapper and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 2008, he was issued a final order of removal. Because of the Biden administration’s open border policies, this criminal illegal alien was released onto the streets of New York,” McLaughlin wrote in an X post.
In 2005, Blair pleaded guilty to multiple counts of weapons and kidnapping charges. He was ultimately found guilty of first-degree kidnapping and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Blair held the victim, who was a teenager at the time, in an apartment unit and ordered the victim’s father to pay a ransom of $5,000. Police were ultimately able to access the apartment and rescue the victim, where they found multiple firearms and felony quantities of marijuana.
Blair told the outlet that he had adopted a “side hustle of dealing marijuana,” adding claiming he was forced to retaliate after the victim stole drugs from him.
“I got caught up selling weed and fell in love with the money,” Blair told the paper, but claimed he never held the victim against his will, despite the conviction. “Somebody took something from me, and I wanted to get it back,” he said.
“Why does the New York Times continue to peddle sob stories about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?” She said that Trump is focused on “arresting and deporting the worst of the worst,” including “convicted kidnappers,” McLaughlin told the New York Post.
