Like many Americans following the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man our government wrongly deported due to an “administrative error,” I’ve started wondering if I might be a member of a violent transnational Salvadoran gang. 

President Donald Trump and officials from his administration, despite acknowledging the “Oops! We accidentally deported you!” part of the story in court documents, continue insisting Abrego Garcia is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang. They have not provided what people who watch legal dramas on TV call “evidence” to convincingly support that claim, but they’ll be darned if they won’t keep making it.

Over the weekend, the actual president of the United States of America posted a probably doctored photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand on social media. The Maryland father has actual tattoos on four of his fingers, but in the photo Trump was holding, someone seems to have photoshopped “M,” “S,” “1” and “3” on four of Garcia’s fingers in an utterly unconvincing font.

The real finger tattoos are a marijuana leaf, a smiley face with X’s for eyes, a cross and........

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