Watch out Gramps! ICE is out to get you!

What out Gramps! ICE is out to get you!

The left’s strategy on immigration is focused on turning illegals into victims. Here what they are saying. Every illegal arrested by ICE is an innocent. Every illegal is now a hardworking person with a devoted family. Illegals who are now imprisoned awaiting deportations are mistreated, deprived on medications and malnourished. ICE is a bunch of brown shirted masked terrorists grabbing people off the streets, raiding places of work willy nilly. Legal residents are being harassed. ICE is profiling. Here is what one advocate says “The Trump administration’s first six months of immigration policy are a case study in unimaginable cruelty that makes no distinction between legal immigrants and the undocumented, that targets undocumented people who have been here for decades, and that uses brute force police tactics to intimidate communities.” “The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is raiding churches, courthouses, and schools and locking up undocumented grandmothers. The Homeland Security Department is revoking the protected status of tens of thousands of legal immigrants, clearing the way to deport people who have lived here for more than 20 years.”

The left having lost being able to open the borders to all comers is now diligently trying to keep those who entered illegally here by lying and misinformation.  It appears to be working as polls now show shifting opinions on illegals. Once supportive, now polls show only 35% of Americans surveyed approve of how the administration is handling illegal immigrants. Of course, I wonder how the questions were phrased. I bet the questions were written so as to evoke a certain response.

But the media is compliant and doing its best to sway public opinion away from the deportation of illegals. The Department of Homeland Security is trying to counter the false stories in the press but must make a concerted effort on social media to tell its story because the mainstream media will not. Here are just a few of the false stories debunked by Homeland Security:

“ICE Facilities are Overcrowding and Inmates are Starving with No MedicalAssistance”

“Less than 10% of Immigrants taken into ICE Custody since October had Serious Criminal Convictions”

“A Massachusetts High School Illegal Alien was Held in Solitary Confinement”

“ICE is “Racial Profiling” – Resulting in U.S. Citizens being Arrested”

“DHS Provided No Advance Notice to Los Angeles Police Department Prior toEnforcement”

“ICE Targeted Nannies at Parks”

“ICE Arrested a 6-Year-old with Leukemia at an LA Immigration Court”

“ICE Raid on the Home of a Pregnant Lady”

“DHS Agents Entered UCLA Medical Building”

“ICE Tried to Stake-out the Dodgers’ Stadium, but were Denied Access”

“ICE Failed to Provide a Pregnant Illegal Alien with Medical Care, Causing aMiscarriage”

“ICE Targeted Youth Shelters in Florida”

“DHS Deported a Father after a Traffic Stop”

What about the headline “Trump Administration Deports 82 Year Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala?” That too was false and was a hoax. Also the story of the grandmother being locked up involved a woman who was “documenting the detention of asylum-seekers with the group Detention Resistance in San Diego.” She was arrested for pushing an officer – which of course she denies and was cited for assault. Or famously the reporting on Abrego Garcia the “kindly Maryland family man” illegally deported to El Salvador? Or the stories of democrat politicians trying to visit detention centers housing illegals? 

The question is why would anyone believe anything reported in the media? According to Gallup, America’s trust in the media is at a historic low. A Gallup survey found that only 31 percent of Americans still believe that the media “fully, accurately and fairly” reports the news. Attention: that 31 percent is delusional. I don’t believe any of it – including Fox. 

ICE needs to constantly combat the media disinformation. But it needs some help from the Trump folks. Stephen Miller should keep his mouth shut. He reeks of wanting to deport every illegal regardless of circumstance. I hear nothing positive from him. No suggestion of a migrant worker program. No suggestion of any thought but ship them out. It was also a bad look for the administration when it revoked the temporary protected status of 300,000 Haitians given by Biden in 2024. The total number of Haitians given protected status by Biden is around 500,000. The first group of Haitians came after the devastating earthquakes of 2022. The latter group was fleeing the takeover of the country by gangs after the president fled. The in 2025, Trump revokes the legal status of the Haitians along with 30,000 Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans. I think many if not most of us would sympathize with anyone living under those regimes.

Then there is the ugliness of Trump moving to deport the Afghans who aided the Americans and fled the country when the Taliban took over. These too came to the country under temporary protected status and are now facing deportation. I know that Miller has talked about Biden’s abuse of the temporary protected status program, but blanket expulsions seem a bit harsh. Mind you the optics of kicking these people out while waiving all restrictions to bring in a bunch of white South African farmers is a bad look.