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Exposed: Another Bogus Immigration 'Controversy' Falls Apart

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  April 22, 2025 10:05 AM

Over the last few days, leftists on social media got spun up over an alleged immigration-related abuse by the Trump administration, screaming about an American citizen being wrongfully detained.  I'll say this: If an actual citizen of the United States had indeed been victimized by a wrongful immigration detention, that would represent solid grounds for concern and criticism.  It would certainly be more politically sound than aggressively going to bat for, say, an illegal immigrant who is also a credibly accused wife beater and a twice-adjudicated gang member.  But as it turns out, based on the available evidence, this latest outrage was bogus.  If you search the name 'Jose Hermosillo,' numerous headlines will pop up about a 19-year-old US citizen whose family said he was unjustly imprisoned for ten days by authorities.  

How could such a thing happen?  Well, this would be how, per official documents:


The Department of Homeland Security has also posted receipts related to bizarre set of circumstances:


DHS says that once this man's family furnished proof of his US citizenship, "the charges were dismissed and he was released. Mr. Hermosillo’s arrest and detention were a direct result of his own actions and statements."  The whole thing is very strange, especially because the individual stated and attested that he was not a citizen.  Via our former Townhall colleague, this factor may also have contributed to the confusion:


I'm not sure how anyone operating in good faith could blame DHS for any of this, if the man told officers and signed paperwork asserting that he was not an American citizen and had entered US territory illegally.  Once his fairly inexplicable incorrect claim was cleared up and disproven, the case against him was immediately dismissed and he was sent on his way.  Then again, there are many people operating in bad faith on immigration-related controversies.  Democrats who were complicit in mass lawlessness at the border for years cannot get enough of the Kilmar 'Maryland Father' Garcia whitewash. They're suddenly sticklers about the rule of law, they claim, after aggressively undermining it throughout a catastrophic border crisis.  And they're notably uninterested in their poster child's record of violence and arrests, wrapping themselves -- cynically and without credibility -- in the banner of the "rule of law:"

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Maxwell and other House Democrats are following in the footsteps of Sen. Chris Van Hollen's El Salvador stunt.  House Republicans are 'encouraging' more of their colleagues to take a similar 'stand:'


Perhaps they could generously finance a trip for Washington State Senator Patty Murray, who has lots to say about this case, but allegedly nothing to say about one of her own constituents -- an American veteran -- detained by the communist regime in Venezuela:

Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray has used her platform to support bringing illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an accused gang member and wife abuser, back to the United States from El Salvador. But she seems wholly disinterested in helping bring home Joseph St. Clair, a United States Air Force veteran who did four tours in Afghanistan, who was abducted and jailed in Venezuela by the Maduro regime. “Nothing from Patty Murray at all. Not even a not even a form letter response,” Scott St. Clair, Joseph’s dad, explained in an exclusive interview on “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH...Scott St. Clair, who lives in Hansville, Wash., says his son first went missing in November 2024, when Joseph was living in Colombia seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. It wasn’t until February when Scott St. Clair said he received a call from the consulate in Colombia informing him that the Maduro regime in Venezuela had abducted his son...While Scott St. Clair says Senator Maria Cantwell’s office eventually reached out to him on how to officially request help from the senator, it was Senator Patty Murray who ignored his requests for help. Yet Murray’s office has taken time to call attention to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was deported after the Trump administration said it learned of his ties to violent gang MS-13.

Like Patty Morin, this man is not of interest to one of his home state Democratic Senators, who clearly has other political priorities. I'll leave you with a few other non-troversies on this front: