{"id":2493146,"date":"2025-10-01T05:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tracking-every-lie-dems-media-invent-to-demonize-ice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:10:36","slug":"tracking-every-lie-dems-media-invent-to-demonize-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tracking-every-lie-dems-media-invent-to-demonize-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Every Lie Dems, Media Invent To Demonize ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftracking-every-lie-dems-media-invent-to-demonize-ice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2493146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article, updated on September 30th, 2025, discusses how immigration enforcement under former President Donald Trump played a notable role in his 2024 election victory, particularly his policies on border security and mass deportations.Despite widespread public support for these measures, Democrats and much of the corporate media have actively worked to discredit ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) by portraying it&#8217;s actions as criminal and labeling its agents with extreme rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights multiple incidents where <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >media narratives framed legitimate immigration enforcement efforts<\/a> as abuses or injustices.Examples include false claims about ICE holding a 5-year-old child hostage, a high-profile arrest of a school superintendent who was working illegally and evading ICE, and fabricated stories about kidnappings and raids.It also touches on misleading media coverage involving detainees such as a utah violinist with a criminal record and a deported man with gang ties, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The article underscores that these falsehoods and smear campaigns have led to dangerous consequences-ranging from attacks on ICE facilities to increased hostility against law enforcement. It argues that many media reports exaggerate or distort facts, contributing to misinformation that undermines legitimate immigration law enforcement. The author concludes by pointing to past debunked claims about border agents &#8220;whipping&#8221; migrants and false allegations of mass sterilizations at detention centers, emphasizing a pattern of media-driven hoaxes aimed at hampering Trump-era immigration policies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Updated Sept. 30th, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no secret that President Donald Trump&rsquo;s plans to secure the border and kick out the foreign criminals the former administration welcomed with open arms were a big factor in his 2024 election victory. Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/13\/poll-in-agreement-with-trump-6-in-10-voters-back-mass-deportations-of-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popularity <\/a>of mass deportation policy ahead of the election, Democrats and corporate media are working overtime to paint legitimate enforcement actions as criminal and smear the people leading that enforcement as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/25\/media-dems-wont-apologize-for-comparing-ice-to-gestapo-after-attack-targeting-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Gestapo.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These lies are not without consequences. The chronically Antifa-afflicted Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility is once again under <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/homo_optimatium\/status\/1972143193409142858?s=46\">siege<\/a>, and the Los Angeles police department is reportedly experiencing a &ldquo;surge&rdquo; in calls about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-03\/los-angeles-police-immigration-kidnappings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;kidnappings&rdquo;<\/a> that are actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/denver-asks-texas-border-officials-to-share-flyers-discouraging-border-crossers-coming-to-their-city\/\" title=\"Denver requests Texas ... officials to share anti-... crossing flyers to discourage individuals from coming to their city.\">federal immigration enforcement efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, mere months after nearly a dozen suspects were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/10-suspects-charged-july-4-attack-texas-ice-detention-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">storming an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, while armed<\/a> in July, a shooter in Dallas carried out what Department of Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem called a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/dhs-issues-statement-targeted-attack-dallas-ice-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;vile attack motivated by hatred for ICE.&rdquo; <\/a>The perpetrator shot three detainees after firing &ldquo;indiscriminately&rdquo; into an ICE van before killing himself.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-ICE rhetoric touted by the left and their allies in the propaganda press has proved dangerous and deadly. Yet, corporate media and congressmen alike continue to parrot it. Here are all of the hoaxes manufactured in an attempt to hamper Trump&rsquo;s immigration enforcement by whatever means necessary.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Des Moines Superintendent&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Corporate media feigned shock and awe in September 2025 when the superintendent of Iowa&rsquo;s largest school district was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICEgov\/status\/1971677370135289929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a> &ldquo;on a deportation order and weapons charges,&rdquo; as The Federalist&rsquo;s Joy Pullman <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/the-race-hustling-illegal-running-des-moines-schools-indicts-the-entire-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. Headlines about the high-profile detention <a href=\"https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/2025\/09\/26\/des-moines-public-schools-superintendent-in-ice-custody-after-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">focused<\/a> on Ian Roberts&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/des-moines-public-schools-superintendent-detained-ice\/story?id=125975768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">role<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/des-moines\/2025\/09\/26\/des-moines-public-schools-superintendent-ian-roberts-arrested-by-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Des Moines school district.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/ice-arrests-criminal-alien-serving-des-moines-public-schools-superintendent-prior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to ICE, however, the Guyana national was not only working illegally, but attempted to evade arrest from ICE in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/ian-roberts-des-moines-schools-superintendent-detained-by-ice\/68080086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taxpayer-funded vehicle<\/a> stocked with a loaded firearm. He was also in possession of a hunting knife and $3,000 in cash, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>As Pullmann <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/the-race-hustling-illegal-running-des-moines-schools-indicts-the-entire-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, over the last five years, &ldquo;Roberts bilked American taxpayers out of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PaulDMauro\/status\/1971716493328138684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than $1 million<\/a>&nbsp;in superintendents&rsquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/govsalaries.com\/roberts-ian-a-144625564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">salaries<\/a>&nbsp;plus $400,000 to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/02\/deal-set-3rd-discrimination-case-tied-to-ex-millcreek-schools-superintendent-ian-roberts-tim-stoops\/83373012007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z11xx39p119950n00----c00----e006500v11xx39b0089xxd118965&amp;gca-ft=123&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">settle three lawsuits<\/a>&nbsp;accusing him of hiring women over men while leading a Pennsylvania school system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That district could not&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraPowellEsq\/status\/1972188377391734985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">verify his credentials<\/a>&nbsp;but still paid him $183,000 per year, plus benefits, for three years,&rdquo; Pullmann added.<\/p>\n<h2>5-Year-Old Hostage<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Yet another corporate media-led smear campaign against ICE kicked off when headlines accused agents of holding a young child hostage to goad her father into complying with detainment. <\/p>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/24\/24-hours-before-attack-on-ice-nbc-ran-a-hoax-accusing-ice-of-holding-child-hostage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">originally peddled the hoax<\/a> that ICE agents used the 5-year-old daughter of an apparent illegal alien as bait to &ldquo;pressure&rdquo; her father into surrendering. The story prompted responses from Democrats such as Rep. Ilhan Omar,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1970668394195059106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who called<\/a> ICE &ldquo;vile and beyond cruel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A correction notice retroactively applied to the article, however, confirmed that the original story &ldquo;mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents.&rdquo; In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/ice-held-5-year-old-autistic-girl-massachusetts-pressure-father-surren-rcna233146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">updated<\/a> story, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the father &ldquo;ignored law enforcement emergency lights to pull over and drove back to his house.&rdquo; He then &ldquo;fled from the car, gave officers the double middle finger, and darted inside his house.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He abandoned his 5-year-old daughter in the car. Officers helped rescue the child and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gary-busey-caught-with-his-pants-down-literally-hours-after-getting-axed-from-convention-over-sex-offense-charges\/\" title=\"Gary Busey Caught With His Pants Down \u2014 Literally \u2014 Hours After Getting Axed From Convention Over Sex Offense Charges\">called local police<\/a> to report the abandonment.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Utah Violinist&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In August and September 2025, corporate media raised a ruckus about ICE&rsquo;s detention of a &ldquo;Utah violinist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Donggin Shin, a Korean national, was more than eligible for detention after DHS said he not only illegally <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1960382379823857793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overstayed<\/a> his visa, but also received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/30\/nx-s1-5523773\/john-shin-utah-violinist-ice-immigration-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DUI conviction in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of his arrest, however, highlighted his role as a musician in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/utah-violinist-released-ice-detention-bond-rcna229538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;prestigious Utah Symphony and Ballet West&rdquo;<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/30\/nx-s1-5523773\/john-shin-utah-violinist-ice-immigration-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protests and fundraising efforts<\/a> that followed his detainment. NBC News even amplified Shin&rsquo;s apparent justification for his DUI &mdash; his depression over his father&rsquo;s &ldquo;Level 4 glioblastoma brain tumor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>NEW MEDIA HOAX JUST DROPPED<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ICE cruelly arrested a Utah Violinist&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>REALITY: The &ldquo;violinist&rdquo; is a CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN with prior convictions, including DUI.<\/p>\n<p>All the media does is lie. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q9a1trVvih\">pic.twitter.com\/Q9a1trVvih<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1963342928392155354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Kidnapping&rsquo; In California<\/h2>\n<p>When Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon&rsquo;s family held a press conference on June 30, 2025, claiming she was kidnapped at gunpoint by &ldquo;bounty hunters&rdquo; and was held in a warehouse until she signed self-deportation paperwork, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/l-mother-taken-u-border-224645316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate<\/a> media went ape about the abduction of a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1945952174543946089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;California community leader.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calderon&rsquo;s story and photos of her &ldquo;rescue,&rdquo; which authorities said were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/south-la-mom-charged-fake-ice-kidnapping-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;made to look as if she was abused while in ICE custody,&rdquo;<\/a> were fishy from the start. Yet, that didn&rsquo;t stop prominent Democrats such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass from also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1946247896216510570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amplifying the tale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News eventually broke that Calderon seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UCLdSwEudS4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faked the nabbing<\/a> &mdash; even staging elements of it on a surveillance video &mdash; and was later charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/south-la-mom-charged-fake-ice-kidnapping-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal conspiracy and making false statements<\/a>, but Democrats and the propaganda press just moved on to their next information operation.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Raid&rsquo; at Minneapolis Mexican Restaurant<\/h2>\n<p>In June, Democrats<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/leaders-call-out-irresponsible-rumors-ice-raid-minneapolis\"> helped paint <\/a>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-speaks-out-finally-against-fbi-raid-on-james-okeefe\/\" title=\"ACLU Speaks Out -- Finally -- Against FBI Raid on James O&#039;Keefe\">legitimate criminal investigation<\/a> into a potential drug and money laundering operation at a Minneapolis Mexican restaurant as an &ldquo;ICE raid.&rdquo; The fake news not only led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/large-crowd-gathers-minneapolis-during-active-federal-law-enforcement-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protest<\/a>, but also earned the officials who <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/audit-mpd-wasnt-warned-of-federal-raid-void-of-information-fueled-speculation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">parroted<\/a> the falsity a scolding from Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/leaders-call-out-irresponsible-rumors-ice-raid-minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who called the lie &ldquo;highly irresponsible.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Putting out the rhetoric that it was an immigration enforcement, the Hennepin County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office does not participate in immigration enforcement. Elected officials have a responsibility to the constituents to put out accurate information. They don&rsquo;t have to agree with it, but do not mislead the public, causing more harm to our communities,&rdquo; she said. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Father Of Marines&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In June 2025, corporate media tried to use a viral video of a heated Border Patrol arrest in California to undermine the credibility of ICE and Trump&rsquo;s illegal immigration enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Headlines about the lively detainment repeatedly referred to the man in question as a &ldquo;father of Marines,&rdquo; noted his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/17\/us\/narciso-barranco-ice-deport-marines-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;wife is American,&rdquo;<\/a> and claimed he was &ldquo;violently detained&rdquo; and even &ldquo;beaten&rdquo; by federal agents. The truth is, Narciso Barranco was not only illegally present in the U.S. but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dhs-defends-viral-video-cbp-agents-detaining-undocumented-landscaper-wielding-weed-whacker-california\">appeared<\/a> to try and evade arrest by<strong> <\/strong>threatening agents with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/immigration\/border-coverage\/dhs-arrested-landscaper-assault-weedwacker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weedwhacker<\/a>, prompting them to take &ldquo;appropriate action.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Father of a Marine was brutally beaten by ICE agents&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Reality: The &ldquo;father&rdquo; is in our country illegally, evaded arrest, threatened agents with a power tool, and then resisted arrest.<\/p>\n<p>All Democrats and the media do is LIE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5XsbTKS6a\">pic.twitter.com\/x5XsbTKS6a<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1937594371462865139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Maryland Father&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In yet another attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/15\/the-maryland-man-hoax-is-designed-to-criminalize-immigration-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminalize Trump&rsquo;s immigration enforcement plans<\/a>, corporate media and Democrats spent the month of April 2025 clamoring over the deportation of a Salvadoran with suspected MS-13 ties by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/02\/media-lie-about-deported-maryland-fathers-legal-status-downplay-his-gang-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming<\/a> he was merely a &ldquo;Maryland father.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Outlets purported <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/02\/media-lie-about-deported-maryland-fathers-legal-status-downplay-his-gang-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a> &ldquo;was in the U.S. legally,&rdquo; living &ldquo;under protected legal status,&rdquo; and &ldquo;a legal resident.&rdquo; In reality, Garcia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/22\/nx-s1-5511177\/kilmar-abrego-garcia-released-from-federal-custody-pending-criminal-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegally crossed<\/a> into the U.S. in 2011 and faced potential removal in 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/willchamberlain\/status\/1907126470721318969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Evidence<\/a> &ldquo;show[ed] he is a verified member of MS-13,&rdquo; and he is also suspected of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/09\/media-insists-illegal-alien-was-wrongly-deported-court-docs-say-hes-an-ms-13-human-trafficker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">human smuggling<\/a> and abusing his wife. While Abrego Garcia did have a withholding order that kept him from being sent to El Salvador, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/willchamberlain\/status\/1907130972954317020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he did not have<\/a> &ldquo;protected status&rdquo; that prevented his deportation to another country.<\/p>\n<h2>Arrest Quotas<\/h2>\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2025\/01\/26\/ice-arrests-raids-trump-quota\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jan. 26th, 2025, article<\/a>, the Washington Post asserted that the Trump administration assigned &ldquo;quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests.&rdquo; Not only did WaPo publish the assertion based on nothing more than anonymous sources, but it also reportedly only gave the White House&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StevenCheung47\/status\/1883603447590850945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four minutes to comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung later noted, the &ldquo;dishonest&rdquo; WaPo report was a &ldquo;fake story.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Chicago School &lsquo;ICE Raid&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Just four days after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2025, a reporter for The Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nellbsalzman\/status\/1882892888914468924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that ICE &ldquo;showed up&rdquo; at a Chicago-area school.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This immigration action appears to be the first at a Chicago school after President Donald Trump took office,&rdquo; the post claimed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovPritzker\/status\/1882900706132402318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Illinois&rsquo; Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/latest-anti-trump-hoax-chicago-school-district-falsely-claims-ice-came-to-elementary-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chicago Public Schools officials<\/a> quickly<strong> <\/strong>used the situation to attack the Trump administration&rsquo;s immigration enforcement plans, even though the so-called &ldquo;raid&rdquo; was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chicago-school-ice-secret-service-773b6e92eb437f1f4dfe06b035757dbf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">determined<\/a> to be a U.S. Secret Service&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/secret-service-sheds-light-on-what-happened-at-chicago-school\/3656417\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a> into a &ldquo;threat against a government official.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Border Patrol Whipping Lie<\/h2>\n<p>In September 2021, as President Joe Biden&rsquo;s border crisis became the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/22\/new-immigration-numbers-prove-biden-border-crisis-is-worst-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worst<\/a> in U.S. history, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/24\/here-are-the-conspiracy-theorists-who-spread-the-lie-that-mounted-border-agents-whipped-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media and Democrat conspiracy theorists<\/a>&nbsp;flooded front pages, the White House press briefing room, and social media with lies that Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas &ldquo;whipped&rdquo; migrants trying to cross into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times specifically asserted that the horse-mounted agents used &ldquo;the reins of their horses to strike at running migrants,&rdquo; a claim that the publication <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/28\/new-york-times-retroactively-scrubs-whipping-lie-from-border-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scrubbed<\/a> after the photographer who took the viral photos&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/local\/el-paso-news\/photographer-behind-controversial-photos-speaks-exclusively-to-ktsm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;he never saw Border Patrol whip anyone.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/document\/report\/cbp-office-professional-responsibility-del-rio-horse-patrol-unit-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection investigation<\/a> confirmed in 2022 that it found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-findings-investigation-horse-patrol-activity-del-rio\">no evidence <\/a>that border security officers &ldquo;struck any person with horse reins.&rdquo; In fact, the findings determined &ldquo;there is no evidence&rdquo; that the border crossers who were corralled by the agents were &ldquo;ultimately forced to return to Mexico or denied entry to the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Mass Sterilizations At Detention Center<\/h2>\n<p>During the first Trump administration, MSNBC&rsquo;s Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, and Chris Hayes appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/nbc-defamation-settlement-georgia-doctor-finalized-court-following-msnbcs-uterus-collector-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defame<\/a> a Georgia doctor when they peddled claims he performed mass unnecessary hysterectomies on women held at an ICE detention center. The story about the &ldquo;uterus collector&rdquo; was verifiably false from the start and resulted in a $30 million lawsuit against NBC Universal, MSNBC&rsquo;s parent company.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Sept. 30, 2025: Trump&#8217;s border plans key to 2024 win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2493147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/50044145473_aed161b0f1_k-e1759247468776.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5050,3685,8364,4188,5894],"class_list":["post-2493146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bias","tag-democrats","tag-ice","tag-media","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/50044145473_aed161b0f1_k-e1759247468776.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493150,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493146\/revisions\/2493150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}