Pocharapon Neammanee reports:
The wife of a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador by mistake said she and her family were forced to move to a safe house after the Department of Homeland Security exposed her address on its official X account.
“I don’t feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral and people have all sorts of opinions,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura told The Washington Post.
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In an attempt to further portray Abrego Garcia as dangerous, DHS posted a copy of a protective order filed by Vasquez Sura against her husband in 2021. The document included her family’s home address.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as,” the department’s post read. “According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm.”
Read more at HuffPost.
Why didn’t DHS redact the family’s address? And if it was an innocent error, did they apologize?
No, they did not apologize at all. Nor did they delete their tweet and replace it with a redacted one. When questioned by HuffPost, DHS reportedly replied that the protective order is a public record that anyone can get.
So that makes it all right for them to just give the information to people who hadn’t actively sought it but who might act on it?