On Thursday morning, the published networks trudged out into the bone-chilling, snowy chilly of Minneapolis to fire up bother and smear Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) brokers with their most popular narratives of the day from their allies within the deep-pocked, far-left thuggery looking the Twin Cities for ICE brokers to harass. This time, one narrative confirmed liberal journalists play newbie lawyer and the opposite pulling on the heartstrings.
NBC’s At present shared a lie that unfold all through the day Thursday — which led to our pal and MRC Bulldog Award winner Drew Holden naming and shaming a slew of offenders — that ICE had engaged in a mind-boggling kidnapping of a five-year-old boy.
Correspondent Maggie Vespa warned “a neighborhood college district…is sounding alarms, they are saying, about 4 of their college students taken into ICE custody together with a five-year-old boy, who they are saying was detained together with his father within the household’s driveway.”
NBC’s ‘At present’ on Thursday was a part of the elite liberal media’s disinformation marketing campaign claiming ICE “detained” a five-year-old in Minneapolis
Truth-check: The boy’s father ran.@DrewHolden360, I’ve discovered one other community so that you can personal pic.twitter.com/LAen2gDj2q
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 22, 2026
“The district alleges that one other grownup within the residence begged brokers to depart the kid with them however that the brokers refused. NBC Information reached out to DHS about this in a single day. They didn’t reply to us, however the company did inform The Washington Put up that their coverage is to ask mother and father in the event that they need to be eliminated with their youngsters or be positioned with an individual designated by the father or mother,” she added.
Truth test: Pants on fireplace.
The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) supplied a complete clarification of this case. The principle takeaway? The boy’s father fled on foot upon seeing ICE and thus left his little one. As any sane individual would, ICE’s focus shifted to the welfare of the boy:
On January 20, ICE performed a focused operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias. As brokers approached the motive force Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot—abandoning his little one. For the kid’s security, certainly one of our ICE officers remained with the kid whereas the opposite… https://t.co/yJVf5B66lQ
— Homeland Safety (@DHSgov) January 22, 2026
Vice President Vance additionally addressed this story’s virality as disproportionate to its factual foundation:
Reporter: “A neighborhood college district right here is alleging ICE brokers detained a five-year-old after preschool on Tuesday. We have additionally seen a number of Americans detained by ICE within the final six weeks. Are you pleased with how your administration is conducting this immigration crackdown… pic.twitter.com/yY4dvgL05G
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 22, 2026
Earlier within the piece, NBC huffed a couple of scene exterior a fuel station of a mob harassing federal legislation enforcement. Fourth hour co-host Sheinelle Jones stated there have been “extra tenses clashes between protesters and federal brokers in Minneapolis” as “demonstrators confront[ed] officers” whereas “the nation’s Border Patrol commander…[threw] a fuel cannister” at them.
Vespa additionally painted legislation enforcement because the aggressors (click on “broaden”):
And [the Vice President’s visit] comes, as you level out, as tensions soar right here on the bottom. one of many newest clashes involving some of the distinguished figures within the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, that’s Border Patrol commander — proper there — Gregory Bovino throwing a canister into an indignant crowd of protesters yesterday after warning these protesters a number of instances that it was fuel.
Now, DHS says this began as a result of officers, together with Bovino had been going fuel station to fuel station within the space making an attempt to make use of a toilet that they stored getting turned away, the company stated, and a bunch of protesters, of their phrases, began to stalk them. They are saying conflict occurred and the state of affairs devolved to that.
CBS Mornings continued to indicate that, relating to the AM program, the Bari Weiss-led community has an extended solution to go.
Co-host Nate Burleson started the Minneapolis protection by stating there was “essential new data this morning on the immigration crackdown in Minnesota” as “a memo obtained by CBS Information exhibits that ICE brokers have been informed that they will pressure their approach into suspect’s houses with out a choose’s search warrant.”
This led into what was largely a re-racking of correspondent Nicole Sganga’s piece from Wednesday’s CBS Night Information claiming ICE is by no means banned from cooperating with or working in Minnesota jails:
Thursday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ peddled the doomsday lie about ICE being allowed to barge into any “suspect’s residence with out a choose’s earch warrant” and demand ICE is “flat flawed” to assert they’re banned from going into Minnesota jails to take unlawful immigrants for deportation
Inform me… pic.twitter.com/5soPqTatJT
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 22, 2026
In the meantime, ABC’s Good Morning America had lower than two minutes on the unrest their pals eagerly foment. Correspondent Matt Rivers centered on the warrant nonsense:
ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ was slightly upset Thursday on the concept ICE can acquire “warrant of removing/deportation” with out going by means of a full, drawn-out trial like somebody would if that they had dedicated some other crime
“Specialists say it might imply much less accountability and extra… pic.twitter.com/M3eYZj6Pmu
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 22, 2026
What are the info right here?
Go away it to Assistant Homeland Safety Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to elucidate:
They’ve an Administrative warrant.
Administrative warrants have been used for many years and acknowledged by the Supreme Courtroom and decrease courts.
In each case that DHS makes use of an Administrative warrant to enter a residence, an unlawful alien has already had their full due course of… https://t.co/i9jxFJFgne
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) January 22, 2026
Former Trump Justice Division chief of workers Chad Mizelle quote-tweeted a actuality these liberal journalists aren’t acknowledging as they’d slightly play lawyer as a result of maybe they’ve watched some episodes of Regulation & Order or listened to true crime podcasts: “Closing order of removing = due course of full. At that time, evading ICE isn’t activism—it’s being a fugitive.”
In response to a “civil rights litigator,” Mizelle defined on the authorized rationale: “They aren’t getting into American’s homes; they’re getting into the homes of unlawful alien fugitives. Fugitives who’ve been given each probability to current their claims and who acquired due course of. So sure, it’s the Govt’s place that unlawful alien fugitives can’t keep away from deportation by hiding of their homes.”
To see the related transcripts from January 22, click on right here (for ABC), right here (for CBS), and right here (for NBC).
