Reality: A confidential informant said he was an MS-13 gang member.
Fixed that. Confidential informants are criminals who are being granted some form of clemency in exchange for providing information on other criminals. You can judge for yourself how credible they are.
Now, he was here illegally, so I don't have any problem with his removal. But we shouldn't be overselling the situation based on the word of a CI.
One would think the entire Henry Lee Lucas debacle would have put a forever stain on the "criminal in prison confessed to us for his benefit, so we trust him entirely" thing, but I guess that's not a story the media likes to teach people.
Fixed that. Confidential informants are criminals who are being granted some form of clemency in exchange for providing information on other criminals. You can judge for yourself how credible they are.
Now, he was here illegally, so I don't have any problem with his removal. But we shouldn't be overselling the situation based on the word of a CI.
One would think the entire Henry Lee Lucas debacle would have put a forever stain on the "criminal in prison confessed to us for his benefit, so we trust him entirely" thing, but I guess that's not a story the media likes to teach people.