The corrupt legacy media is at it again, folks. Just days into President Trump's second term, the same liars who spent four years covering for Biden are back to their old tricks - manufacturing outrage about ICE operations with deliberately misleading headlines designed to make you think jackbooted federal agents are terrorizing innocent children.
Both the New York Times and Washington Post ran screaming headlines about ICE "detaining" a 5-year-old boy and other children from a Minneapolis school district. The Times went with "Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis," while the Post shrieked about "ICE detains four children from Minnesota school district."
Here's what they don't want you to know: it's complete BS.
Thanks to swift action by the Department of Homeland Security and Vice President J.D. Vance, Americans got the real story before these propaganda outlets could spend an entire weekend whipping up fake hysteria. The truth? No 5-year-old was "detained" by anyone. This was standard immigration enforcement targeting adults, but the media vultures saw an opportunity to attack Trump's deportation agenda and pounced.
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This is exactly the kind of manufactured outrage we saw throughout Trump's first term. Remember the "kids in cages" photos that turned out to be from Obama's presidency? Or the endless sob stories designed to guilt Americans into accepting unlimited illegal immigration?
The pattern is always the same: Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts lawful operations to remove people who entered our country illegally. The media then cherry-picks the most emotional angle possible, often involving children, to frame law enforcement as the villains.
"The American people voted for mass deportations, and that's exactly what they're getting. No amount of media lies will change that."
What makes this even more disgusting is the speed with which these outlets published their false narratives. They couldn't be bothered to wait for facts or context - they had anti-Trump propaganda to spread and deadlines to meet.
Credit where it's due: DHS and VP Vance shut this nonsense down immediately. That's the kind of rapid response we need to combat media lies in Trump's second term.
The question Americans should be asking isn't whether ICE is doing its job - it's why the supposedly "objective" mainstream media continues to function as the propaganda arm of the open-borders lobby. How many more times will patriots fall for these same tired lies?