Colombian media on Wednesday reported that 23 year-old national Rafael Vergara, whose mom, Conservative Party Congresswoman Angela Vergara, claimed to CNN had been legally living and working in the US while being processed for asylum, was finally deported back home this week after more than 20 days in the gulag in Louisiana waiting for a seat on a deportation flight.

“This isn’t a political issue; it’s really a human rights issue,” Congresswoman Vergara told CNN, adding “Being a conservative politician doesn’t mean I agree with human rights violations in Colombia or anywhere else in the world.” At no point was it explained why the son of a politician with resources and connections had been claiming asylum like an impoverished laborer rather than simply buying his way in the same way so many other third-world elites’ kids do but whatever.

“He told me that he was with 70 people in a cell, that they had gone 12 hours the day before without drinking water, (and) everyone was sick,” said the woman whose party celebrated mightily when convicted felon President Trump returned to the White House and have since constantly heckled leftist President Gustavo Petro over his clashes with El Naranjo Coño. Petro last week had tweeted a November 2024 video of a woman resembling Vergara dancing with a MAGA hat on but deleted it after it had turned out she was some right wing Chilean senator. “No matter the paradox, the Colombian embassy in the US must help… this Colombian congresswoman to recover her son,” Petro had written nonetheless. It’s not clear if Rafael’s return was sped up by any political intervention.