Media outlets have labeled President Trump a dictator and tyrant who uses his office vindictively against critics. They accuse him of trying to shut down the media as retribution. But the fact is that President Trump has rightly accused the mainstream media of being biased, pushing a left-wing agenda while damaging the country’s reputation and citizen trust in government.
The consistent framing of ICE deportations as illegal and unjustified is one of the most concrete examples of how the media has twisted the narrative to make people hate the administration and to believe that federal law enforcement has no authority. Media stories consistently omit crucial details from their ICE-related reporting, such as the fact that the individual was a noncitizen.
In the case of Abrego Garcia, many people still believe he was a U.S. citizen because media outlets referred to him inconsistently as a Maryland man instead of an illegal alien. They omit other details, such as whether the individual is a gang member, has past convictions, has a current deportation order, or lacks legal status. Instead, they focus on the person being allegedly hard-working and on the timing of the arrest, such as the day before graduation or while on the way to the hospital to see a newborn baby.
This portrayal of ICE as an illegitimate Nazi force or “Gestapo” has emboldened citizens to form anti-ICE groups, to run advertisements on television and on the internet encouraging ICE resistance, and has been responsible for much of the violence and chaos associated with deportation policies.
News should be real and true, not lies and opinions