There six authors in the byline of this story titled “The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’.” I think it’s fair to say the NY Times is going all out here to salvage a failing Democratic effort to make Kilmar Abrego Garcia a sympathetic figure, despite all the bad news that has come out about him in the last few weeks.
The story starts with his boyhood in El Salvador where neighbors described him as a mischievous kid who liked to play pranks. A childhood friend says he “he liked to stir up trouble.” He had an older brother who fled to the US for a better life and as gang problems in his hometown got worse, he also fled when he was about 16 or 17 years old. He crossed the border illegally and eventually made it to Maryland where he worked as a day laborer and later a sheet metal worker.
At age 23 he had a date with a woman who’d been born in…
