US deports ex-Trump employee, DHS admits fault

In yet another example of the Trump administration's shocking incompetence, it's been revealed that an ex-Trump golf course employee was illegally deported to Mexico.

For ten years, Alejandro Juarez served Donald Trump to the best of his abilities. Juarez worked at Trump National Golf Club Westchester for a decade. While employed, he built a life for himself in New York: a wife, two kids, and a full-time job in America. For most immigrants who flee their country, Juarez was living the dream.

That dream was first battered in 2019, when Trump unceremoniously fired Juarez and a dozen other workers for being undocumented.

Now? That dream is shattered, and Juarez's family is left trying to sweep up the broken pieces of their lives in America.

Illegally deported

In September 2025, Juarez was ousted from the US and returned to Mexico, more than two decades after he fled the country. Alejandro Juarez didn't receive a hearing, didn't appear before a judge, and by the time of his scheduled hearing on September 25, he had already been deported back to Mexico.

“This is unprecedented in my 20 years of practice—an individual being removed without any hearing, leaving even the court and DHS confused,” Juarez's lawyer, Anibal Romero, told the Times.

Initially, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the media that Juarez had been arrested for a DUI conviction from 2022, but later admitted to mishandling Juarez completely.

According to DHS, Juarez was supposed to be sent to an ICE detention center in Arizona, but instead was popped on a plane to Mexico.

Per DHS's comments, Juarez was accidentally sent to Mexico. Yes, accidentally.

Trump administration officials said they would attempt to bring Juarez back to the U.S., but said they would be deporting him again, this time attempting to do so legally.

All-knowing and powerless?

Juarez's is not the first case of this nature. Last spring, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador, despite a court order barring his repatriation.

Trump initially claimed that he lacked the power to return Garcia from prison, but the Supreme Court ruled that his administration would have to find a way to secure Garcia's release.

Garcia was returned to the U.S. in June 2025, but was arrested by ICE in August during a mandatory check-in with DHS. Garcia is currently out on bail, having pled not guilty to a charge of human trafficking.

Garcia is citing vindictive prosecution.