This whole mass-deportation thing gets better and better. On the same day that the Supreme Court hung the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the innocent Marylander currently residing in the El Salvador super-max, on the difference between facilitate and effectuate, the story of Andry Hernandez, the gay makeup artist wrongly deported to the same hellhole, took an even more maddening turn. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

The former Milwaukee Police Department officer involved in the recent deportation of a Venezuelan makeup artist to El Salvador had previously been placed on a list of Milwaukee County officers with credibility issues and was later fired by the department after crashing into a house while driving drunk. Cross, 62, is back in the news for his current job with CoreCivic, which runs many of the immigration detention centers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Cross signed a report that implicated Andry José Hernandez, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela, as affiliated with the notorious Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, based on his tattoos, according to court filings reviewed by USA TODAY.

Cross typed his name over the title “INVESTIGATOR” on the form. Critics have questioned the legality and effectiveness of having contract workers make such determinations. Hernandez, 31, has denied any connection to the gang. He sought shelter in the United States after he told authorities he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the protected groups allowed to claim asylum.

This guy, Cross, is a real piece of work. In fact, his record would indicate that he was more of a danger to the public safety than anyone we’ve trafficked off to Central America.

Charles Cross Jr. was hired by the department in 1993. In 2012, he drove a car with a blood alcohol limit twice the legal limit into a home. At the time of the crash, he was also under investigation for allegedly claiming overtime he did not earn, according to previous reporting by the Journal Sentinel. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant after the crash. He appealed the decision and resigned in the process.

Previously, he was convicted in 2007 of criminal damage to property, according to court records. This misdemeanor conviction came after he kicked in the door of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and threatened to kill himself, the court records show. He was fined $500 on that count. Prosecutors offered him a deferred prosecution agreement on a charge of domestic violence-related disorderly conduct, which was dropped after he got treatment for depression and alcohol abuse, according to a Journal Sentinel article.

I can say with some authority that Milwaukee has had a renegade-cop problem for decades. (Sometimes the renegade cop was the guy running things. And hello to you too, Harold Breier.) One of the attempts to reform the department at least partially was the development of something called the Brady list, a list of officers whose credibility is so deep in the sewer that prosecutors should avoid calling them as witnesses. Cross was placed on the Brady list in 2007. So now he's working for a privatized police force carrying out egregious violations of civil liberties on behalf of a blatantly illegal policy. After all, he was a natural for this kind of work.