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The press is doing what it always does when it wants to reshape public opinion: it manufactures outrage and paints federal law enforcement as villains while ignoring the facts. DHS has been forced to publicly debunk numerous false narratives about ICE operations because sensational headlines and selective footage have created a distorted national story.
Those distortions have real consequences — according to DHS, assaults on ICE officers have skyrocketed and the department has pushed back on repeated claims about overcrowding, criminal targeting, and other supposed abuses. Reporters eager for clicks cherry-pick images and anecdotes, then act surprised when their breathless coverage fuels threats and violence against the people enforcing our laws.
Concrete examples pile up: stories alleging ICE raids on shelters, claims that children were mistreated, and accusations of racial profiling have all been publicly rebutted by DHS, which has laid out the facts to correct the record. That kind of correction rarely makes the evening rounds because it doesn’t fit the preferred narrative that many outlets are selling to their audiences.
This isn’t happenstance — it’s politicization. Local leaders and left-leaning commentators weaponize every enforcement action to score partisan points, and now federal operations in cities like Chicago have become a political football, provoking press hysteria instead of sober reporting. When coverage is built to inflame rather than inform, trust in institutions erodes and public safety suffers.
Predictably, the outrage cycle has escalated into harassment and criminal acts against officers and their families; federal prosecutors recently brought charges in a case where an ICE agent was allegedly doxxed after an enforcement action. If journalists and activists truly cared about safety, they would stop celebrating lawlessness and start demanding accountability for those who threaten our officers.
Patriots who want secure borders and orderly enforcement should not be shamed into silence while the media elevates every grievance into a national emergency. Honest reporting would show both the difficult, lawful work ICE does to remove hardened criminals and the department’s own public rebuttals when stories cross the line into fabrication.
Now is the moment for commonsense Americans to insist on fairness from our newsrooms: require verification, show the whole operation, and stop amplifying anonymous rumor as if it were gospel. Our country deserves a media that defends the rule of law instead of stoking fury for ratings, and citizens who value safety should demand better from those who claim to inform us.
