The Atlantic's Fantasy of Redemption: How an MS-13 Gang Member Became a Suburban Dad

The nature of truth, Aristotle once wrote, consists in saying of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not. The Atlantic, in its recent treatment of a Salvadoran national identified by U.S. immigration authorities as a member of MS-13, has chosen to say of what is not that it is. The article in question—couched in plaintive tones, seasoned w…