Mistakenly deported man's plight is big news
While I appreciate the focus on local news, the fact that Kilmar Abrego Garcia hasn't been the leading headline on the front page of every news website in this town, Sun-Times included, is journalistic malpractice.
The Trump administration has argued it can send literally anyone it wants to a foreign prison without due process, in spite of Supreme Court orders to the contrary, and (somehow most incredibly) after it admitted Abrego Garcia was deported due to an “administrative error.” The government knows this is an innocent man, and officials are claiming they not only can’t get him back, but aren’t required to, and there’s nothing a court can say to make them. And now, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he would not return the mistakenly deported man.
This is the constitutional crisis of our time. It’s here. Yet, not a single story on the entirety of the front page on the website: the Sun-Times is fiddling while Rome burns. But hey, at least the cherry blossoms are blooming in Jackson Park! When Donald Trump uses some phony "emergency" to cancel the midterm elections, I’ll bet the Sun-Times has me covered with the weather, or maybe even some Cubs news. I’ll have plenty of time to think about *checks notes* “Rat birth control come[ing] to Wicker Park and Bucktown” when I'm rotting in an El Salvadoran supermax prison, wife and kids wondering where Daddy went to. The time to get serious about this isn’t in two months when it’s the first white American citizen who is "accidentally" disappeared by men in masks and white vans — it’s right now. It’s time for a publication to stand up and start raising hell. Why shouldn’t it be the Sun-Times?
James Ross, West Chicago
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Head-scratching research
There have been dozens, probably hundreds, of studies to determine the cause of autism, and it is still a mystery. But thanks to a “massive testing and research effort” ordered by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we will have the answer by September.
Way to go, Robert! Maybe after, you can just come up with some pills to prevent adolescent pimples and the common cold.
Dan McGuire, Bensenville
Relief from some of CTU’s gripes
Ninety seven percent of Chicago Teachers Union members voted in favor to ratify the new contract with the Chicago Public Schools. That’s good to hear, because now we have four years until the CTU mentions taking a strike vote because they don’t like how negotiations are going.
Richard Barber, Mount Greenwood