Throughout a The State of affairs Room section in response to Tuesday’s stay broadcast of a Homeland Safety Committee oversight listening to, CNN blatantly twisted ICE Director Todd Lyons’s statements about violence towards brokers and described the individuals he was speaking about as, merely, “individuals who don’t like ICE.”
CNN televised the opening statements of immigration enforcement companies, together with Customs and Border Safety Commissioner Rodney Scott and Lyons. As a part of his opening assertion, Lyons referred to as out the rising violence towards ICE brokers and took a defiant stand towards their efforts to hurt and intimidate them:
We face the deadliest working setting in our company’s historical past. In fiscal 12 months 2025, dying threats towards ICE personnel elevated greater than 8,000 %. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1400 %. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officers characterizing our officers as gestapo or secret police. The households of ICE personnel have been made to really feel unsafe of their properties. I do know this primary hand as a result of my circle of relatives was focused. however let me ship a message to anybody who thinks they’ll intimidate us. You’ll fail. Regardless of these perils, our officers proceed to execute their mission with unwavering resolve, and we’re solely getting began.
Within the evaluation section following statements, CNN chief home correspondent Phil Mattingly introduced Lyons’s assertion about “resolve” with none content material of the violence confronted by officers, as a substitute framing it as resolve towards normal criticism:
Lyons making very clear that his group at ICE has “unwavering resolve.” “We’re simply getting began”, he stated in his opening assertion.
So the concept that there was going to be some sort of pullback or effort to form of virtually be a bit of bit extra pragmatic about how they function, given the Democratic objections. They’re making very clear from the beginning, Wolf, that is simply not going to be the case.”
Anchor Wolf Blitzer then construed Lyons’s assertion as being directed in direction of individuals who merely, “don’t love ICE.” “And he stated that these individuals who don’t love ICE, the group he heads, he stated ‘they’ll intimidate us, however you’ll fail,’ his phrases. You’ll fail when you strive to do this,” Blitzer urged.
Mattingly, with no point out of accelerating violence towards ICE, used the assertion to current a possible prospect of a continuance of immigration operations:
The, form of, passage of time has allowed them to take a place or plan to have a posture throughout this listening to with their officers that may be a mixture of defiance and making very clear that this was what the president ran on, what he was elected for and what they plan on persevering with within the months forward.
CNN’s twisting of Lyons’s startling info of excessive will increase in violence towards ICE brokers was a bit brazen since they actually carried his assertion stay the place he shared violence statistics.
Additionally, Blitzer’s description of the individuals Lyons directed his “You’ll fail” feedback grossly simplified and minimized the state of affairs.
Liberal media shops, like CNN, blatant twisting of knowledge the viewers simply witnessed with their very own eyes was the everlasting foundation for the low belief in information we see at the moment.
The transcript is beneath. Click on to develop:
CNN’s The State of affairs Room
February 10, 2026
10:40:50 AM Japanese(…)
ICE DIRECTOR TODD LYONS (Congressional Listening to Testimony): Within the wake of the unprecedented border disaster of the earlier administration, ICE has stepped into the breach to implement the legislation. This dedication has a value. We face the deadliest working setting in our company’s historical past.
In fiscal 12 months 2025, dying threats towards ICE personnel elevated greater than 8,000 %. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1,400 %. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officers characterizing our officers as “gestapo” or “secret police.” The households of ICE personnel have been made to really feel unsafe of their properties. I do know this primary hand as a result of my circle of relatives was focused.
However let me ship a message to anybody who thinks they’ll intimidate us, you’ll fail. Regardless of these perils, our officers proceed to execute their mission with unwavering resolve, and we’re solely getting began.
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10:49:21 AM Japanese
PHIL MATTINGLY: And what we simply heard from Todd Lyons actually form of underscores this level. Effectively, there could also be a rhetorical shift, they usually might have been keen to have negotiations over DHS funding on the hill, which is clearly the backdrop of all the things that is occurring. Lyons making very clear that his group at ICE has “unwavering resolve.” “We’re simply getting began”, he stated in his opening assertion.
So the concept that there was going to be some sort of pullback or effort to form of virtually be a bit of bit extra pragmatic about how they function, given the Democratic objections. They’re making very clear from the beginning, Wolf, that is simply not going to be the case.
WOLF BLITZER: And he stated that these individuals who don’t love ICE, the group he heads, he stated “they’ll intimidate us, however you’ll fail”, his phrases. You’ll fail when you strive to do this.
MATTINGLY: Yeah. There is a stage of defiance to the assertion which is, I feel, at all times been the underlying case. Whenever you speak to administration officers all through the course of the final couple of weeks. And I feel there’s a view contained in the administration that for the entire methods they had been on their again ft – of their very own doing by the best way they dealt with the latest capturing in Minnesota. The, form of, passage of time has allowed them to take a place or plan to have a posture throughout this listening to with their officers that may be a mixture of defiance and making very clear that this was what the president ran on, what he was elected for and what they plan on persevering with within the months forward.
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