Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has published a piece complaining about the deportation of visa overstayers as part of a crackdown on unlawful migrants in the United States.

The thrust of the Journal’s complaint, per their morning e-mail, states: “Despite largely promoting arrests of criminal migrants, the Trump administration has been detaining migrants who don’t have criminal backgrounds or orders for removal.”

The paper cites the case of Dos Santos Amaral, 29, who “identified himself to assure officers he wasn’t who they were looking for.”

This led to “[t]he officers [looking] him up and [learning] that he was overstaying a tourist visa from 2017, according to his lawyer, his wife, and a state legislator helping with his case.”

“Dos Santos Amaral was arrested and detained on the spot and eventually was moved to a detention center in Texas—without the knowledge of his lawyer or family,” the Journal reports.

While visa overstaying is a civil rather than criminal offense, the objection belies Murdoch’s support, given that the media mogul was sitting just a few feet from the Resolute Desk a couple of weeks ago.

More curious still, authors Tarini Parti and Michelle Hackman admit, several paragraphs into their article, that “[l]iving in the U.S. illegally is a civil violation subject to deportation but it isn’t a criminal offense [emphasis added].”

Amaral’s wife also entered the country illegally and is now part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program pushed through by President Barack Obama in order to boost the number of illegal migrants in America.

“Lucas is back home, but the fight isn’t over,” said Suyanne Boechat Amaral, indicating that the deportation was undone and is now subject to the U.S. court system. The couple have a three-year-old anchor baby which the article implies they will use to try and establish a right to reside in America indefinitely.