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‘I’m Not Worried’: Comedian Michael Blackson Dismisses Charlamagne’s Deportation Fearmongering

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Ghanaian-American comedian Michael Blackson on “The Breakfast Club” Monday dismissed radio host Charlamagne tha God’s assertions that President Donald Trump could deport him.

Naturalized citizens can only be deported if their citizenship status is revoked for attaining naturalization illegally or breaching specific immigration laws, but revoking the citizenship of such an individual is exceptionally rare, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Charlamagne told Blackson on the show that Trump was deporting American citizens, but the comedian said that was not relevant to him and that he was not concerned.

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“I’m American. He can’t just deport me now,” Blackson said. “I have no criminal record.”

“Well, no. That’s part of what he’s been doing,” Charlamagne claimed. “He’s been deporting people who are actually U.S. citizens or people who’ve been going through the process.”

While the Trump administration acknowledged it had made an “administrative error” when deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his home country of El Salvador in March, he is allegedly an MS-13 member and an illegal migrant. Abrego Garcia was notified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the Trump administration plans to deport him to Eswatini, Africa, a Department of Homeland Security staffer confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Sept. 5.

Moreover, news outlets reported that the Trump administration deported three U.S. citizen children in April, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio on “Meet the Press” criticized the coverage as “misleading” due to focusing on the children instead of their noncitizen mothers.

Blackson said he would need a criminal record to be deported, but Charlamgagne responded that Trump would “find something” on him. The comedian expressed skepticism.

“I’m not worried about Trump, man,” Blackson said.

Charlamagne even called out the media in April for neglecting to mention that the two-year-old deported by the Trump administration was sent back with her mother, who was not a legal citizen.

“I did not know until you said it about the two-year-old. I mean, I knew about the two-year-old getting deported, but all the news reports just kept saying that a two-year-old got deported,” Charlamagne said. “I didn’t know that the mother had got deported because she wasn’t a citizen … I didn’t know that.”

“It is common that parents want to be removed with their children,” Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post at the time.