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(DC Pundit) – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has never been shy about her priorities. And in case there was any remaining doubt about where she stands, she just made things crystal clear by pardoning a convicted murderer, and in the process, shutting down his deportation.
Whitmer granted Deda Malota Margilaj, 74, a full pardon on July 2, exactly 50 years after he was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting and killing a man at a Detroit gas station in 1975. He served four years. Four years for taking a man’s life. Then he stayed in the United States for the next half century, apparently without issue, until the Biden administration placed him in removal proceedings based on that 1978 conviction.
Enter Whitmer, riding to the rescue.
According to the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, which represented Margilaj, Whitmer’s pardon erases the basis for the removal proceedings and allows for their termination. So not only does this Albanian refugee avoid accountability for a decades-old murder conviction, he also gets to stay in the country. Two birds, one pardon.
The obvious question, the one that apparently nobody in the Michigan governor’s office bothered to ask, is how this man was allowed to remain in the United States for nearly five decades after being convicted of murder in the first place. Most Americans would assume that killing someone here as a foreign national would earn you a swift one-way ticket home. Apparently not in Michigan.
Some observers have noted that the pardon may not even matter legally, given the complexity of federal immigration proceedings.
It doesn't matter. He can still be deported. A governor pardon of a conviction does not override immigration law. "In U.S. immigration law, a Crime Involving Moral Turpitude (CIMT) is an offense that is inherently vile, depraved, or contrary to accepted societal morality.…
— Free_to_read_Rochester Hills (@free_to_readRCS) July 8, 2026
But the symbolism matters plenty. A sitting Democratic governor looked at a convicted killer about to be removed from our country, and said, “No, actually, let’s not do that.”
Convicted of a serious crime and facing deportation? There’s a democrat governor waiting to pardon you as long as it keeps you here voting blue. https://t.co/JQzZg35Ihu pic.twitter.com/5nx68dW7D6
— Heather Dow (@PatriotPostGirl) July 8, 2026
This is the same party that lectures Americans about the rule of law, about compassion, about justice. Yet when it comes time to choose between a murder victim’s legacy and the man who took his life, Whitmer chose the latter, handing him a clean record.
The Democrats are making it very clear who they really represent, and it isn’t law-abiding Americans.
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