Liberal Media’s Coverage of the Trump ICE Raids: Mixed, at Best #Political
As the reality of the Trump Administration’s will to enforce our borders sets in, the Resistance Media scramble to adjust. Coverage of the latest round of raids in New York City and elsewhere was mixed at best.
There were consensus points that every newscast touched. For example, the arrest of the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gangbanger that fled to The Bronx after taking part in the violent seizure of one or more apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado. For most of the Biden years and until the horrific murder of Laken Riley, the media adhered to the Fight Club rule: The First Rule of Tren de Aragua was that you didn’t talk about Tren de Aragua. Not anymore.
The most interesting bit of reporting came from NBC News, and this contradictory segment within Gabe Gutierrez’ video package (click “expand” to view transcript):
GABE GUTIERREZ: Across the country, Trump's deportations are sparking both fierce backlash…
BRANDON JOHNSON: There’s a goal here to stoke fear into the American people.
GUTIERREZ: And strong support.
RANDOM NEW YORKER: I’m real happy it’s happening. Very happy, actually.
GUTIERREZ: After NBC News reported half of undocumented immigrants arrested Sunday had no prior criminal record besides being in the country illegally, NBC’s Peter Alexander asking The White House:
PETER ALEXANDER: So is violent offenders no longer the predicate for these people to be deported?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you are an individual, a foreign national, who illegally enters the United States of America, you are by definition a criminal.
GUTIERREZ: The cost of all of this can be staggering. Two sources familiar with the process tell NBC News deporting one migrant runs around $10,500. Here in New York, city officials estimate it costs an average of $352 a night to house asylum seekers.
GUTIERREZ (SPEAKING SPANISH): Are you afraid?
KATHERINE ESPANCHA (SPEAKING SPANISH): Truthfully, yes.
GUTIERREZ: Katherine Espancha from Venezuela said she and her daughters had stayed at this hotel, a migrant shelter, for six months. That could be a price tag to taxpayers of more than $63,000.
There is the juxtaposition of the marchers chanting “Mexico”, not ideal if you want to elicit sympathy for the soon-to-be-deported, with the guy on the street elated with the raids. There is the presentation of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s forceful response to Peter Alexander with no framing. And then there is the accidental presentation of mass deportations as a cost-saving measure. All of this, presented in a straightforward manner with no adverse framing.
Speaking of framing, we noticed a glaring omission from the reports aired on Univision and Telemundo, historically known for their advocacy. Imagine our shock to discover A-block reports on massive ICE raids without the utterance of “anti-immigrant”, a staple of such coverage on these networks. The MRC Latino archive is festooned with stories on the historic use of that word. But not today.
The closest thing you could find to adversarial coverage came via the “new” CBS Evening News:
MAJOR GARRETT: Today's Bronx operation required around three dozen law enforcement yielding a handful of arrests. Is that a ratio you are comfortable with?
KRISTI NOEM: It is, absolutely. I won't doubt what they need for support and backup.
NOEM (TO A DETAINED MIGRANT): Are you aware you are in violation of our laws?
GARRETT: You want cameras at these events, don't you? And some would say you want this spectacle to be filmed.
NOEM: It is not a spectacle. This is -- this is our nation's law-enforcement judicial process. The scales of Justice are equally applied to everybody. We want transparency on this.
…
JOHN DICKERSON: Major, as you mentioned in the piece, these are pictures the administration wants people to see and they are not upset about that ratio you mentioned. So many forces for a little hull. Help people understand that.
There was that bit of snark over the number of agents versus arrests and over the "spectacle" of it all, as well as some doubt over whether the administration would hit its targets. That's as close to adversarial as the overall reporting came.
Otherwise, coverage was almost clinical with no advocacy or victim stories. The times appear to be a’ changin’. Is this proof evident of a shift in tone or are the media simply too overwhelmed by the pace of change to poison coverage of this aspect of the Trump Agenda? Time will tell.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective newscasts on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
1/28/25
6:36 PM
DAVID MUIR: Meantime, the images in New York City today. President Trump's sweeping mass deportations. The operation here in New York and The Bronx. Federal agents joining the NYPD there. An alleged Venezuelan gang member taken into custody. Right there observing the arrest, the newly sworn in Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem. Another operation ending in an arrest in Maryland. And near Miami, police stopping two vans. 26 suspected undocumented Chinese migrants believed to be inside. Tonight, what our team has learned about what's coming next. Here's our Senior Investigative Correspondent Aaron Katersky.
AARON KATERSKY: Tonight, the Trump Administration has vowed to carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history, expanding to the nation's largest city. Federal agents marching into this apartment in The Bronx, leading a suspect out to a waiting car. Lights flashing. Newly sworn in Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on the scene, posting video of the operation online and this message.
KRISTI NOEM: Here in New York City this morning, we are getting the dirt bags off these streets.
KATERSKY: One of the targets, this man, Anderson Zambrano Pacheco, a 25-year-old purported Venezuelan gang member wanted in connection with an armed home invasion and kidnapping in Aurora, Colorado. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents have made more than 1,000 arrests in the past 24 hours. In Baltimore, ICE apprehending 12 people, knocking on doors and leading detainees to cars. In Tallahassee, 12 people believed to be in the country illegally handcuffed and detained by Homeland Security and state troopers. And near Miami, 13 Chinese migrants were apprehended, patted down, and arrested. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller tonight saying the goal is to arrest at least 1,875 people every day. Authorities insist they're zeroing in on violent criminals, but the DEA Special agent who helped oversee the New York operation today telling me other undocumented immigrants will likely be swept up in these efforts.
FRANK TARENTINO: The DEA has prioritized its most violent criminal illegal aliens in our investigations. Those that are responsible for the violence and the drug trafficking in our communities are the ones that we're going after.
KATERSKY: And if others get swept up in an operation? That's okay, that's acceptable?
TARENTINO: I think that is very likely to happen.
KATERSKY: The Trump Administration's making a big public show of these arrests, publicizing the daily numbers, but they've not said what percentage of those arrested have committed violent crimes. Their own data indicates just over half of those arrested have a violent criminal history. ABC's Mary Bruce pressing The White House.
MARY BRUCE: How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.
AARON KATERSKY: This is the scene here in The Bronx of this morning's big arrest, one of three dozen, David, around the city. And as you saw, immigration officials do not want to be shy. They want to make a splash with these enforcement operations, and we’re told the plan is for ICE to hit three major cities each week. David.
MUIR: Aaron Katersky in The Bronx tonight. Thank you, Aaron.
CBS EVENING NEWS
1/28/25
6:30 PM
JOHN DICKERSON: President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration moves here to America's biggest city. Good evening from New York. I'm John Dickerson.
MAURICE DUBOIS: I'm Maurice Dubois. The Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem went along as federal agents conducted an overnight roundup in The Bronx, and CBS News went with them.
DICKERSON: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, says the search for immigrants in the country illegally led to 969 arrests today nationwide.
DUBOIS: Major Garrett was in The Bronx.
MAJOR GARRETT: Just after 3:00 A.M. We are making our way to downtown Manhattan to begin briefings on ICE actions to come this morning. Inside the ICE field office in Manhattan, the ranks are enlarged by other agencies now ordered by the Trump Administration to gear up for immigration sweeps. The plan, multiple pre-dawn raids targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. The charges range from murder to theft to kidnapping.
ICE OFFICIAL: We are going to take every precaution we try to apprehend these folks.
GARRETT: Today they are joined by newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
KRISTI NOEM: Be safe out there.
GARRETT: The goal, 500 arrests over a weeklong operation in New York. In a Bronx parking lot, a final huddle.
ICE LEADER: The target today is Anderson Pacheco, Venezuelan national, he’s wanted out of Colorado on multiple felony warrants.
GARRETT: A suspended gang member with warrants for kidnapping, burglary, and a gun crime, authorities told us. Around 5:30 A.M., heavily armed agents raid this apartment building and found the suspect, and three other male associates. All handcuffed and without incident. Also there in the residence, three children. Their immigration status unknown. And now check to see if they have a caregiver or if Child Protective Services needs to be brought in. The next stop: a residence less than 2 miles away. After some negotiation, the officers make their way inside but come up empty. The targets were not home. No arrests, no detentions. Federal law enforcement is working with limited help from New York City Police because of the city's laws protecting undocumented immigrants. Some might say, isn't New York a sanctuary city? But you said the mayor has been cooperative?
NOEM: The mayor has been fantastic. I talked to him on the phone probably four or five times last night. One of these individuals was so dangerous that we needed the backup of the NYPD to be there in case things went south.
GARRETT: Today's Bronx operation required around three dozen law enforcement yielding a handful of arrests. Is that a ratio you are comfortable with?
NOEM: It is, absolutely. I won't doubt what they need for support and backup.
Are you aware you are in violation of our laws?
GARRETT: You want cameras at these events, don't you? And some would say you want this spectacle to be filmed.
NOEM: It is not a spectacle. This is -- this is our nation's law-enforcement judicial process. The scales of Justice are equally applied to everybody. We want transparency on this.
GARRETT: Vice President JD Vance has suggested deporting a million people a year could be possible. Roughly quadruple the number under President Biden last fiscal year.
Will you have the person power you need to carry this initiative?
NOEM We're working on it.
GARRETT: It seems like you won't.
NOEM: We will have the personnel because we are going to continue to recruit and ask people to help us.
DICKERSON: Major, as you mentioned in the piece, these are pictures the administration wants people to see and they are not upset about that ratio you mentioned. So many forces for a little hull. Help people understand that.
GARRETT: They want a show of force, and they want people to understand there is a new tempo and range and scope to these immigration actions. Here is what we know about what happened today. It took roughly 90 officers to arrest 20 suspects in about a four hour period. Eight of them had no criminality associated with their existence in this country at all, only that they entered illegally. 12 had criminal records. The administration says that’s 12 people more inclined than not to create crimes in the future. They are off the streets and the country is safer.
DUBOIS: Major, nine days ago with Joe Biden in office, these raids had a whole different kind of feel. How would you compare the two approaches?
GARRETT: The two biggest differences are these, Maurice. We saw ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals. They would not have been involved under the Biden administration. That allows a force multiplier effect. Two: collateral arrests, what are those? The eight suspects arrested today who have no criminality associated with them. They would not have been swept up by the Biden administration. They are being swept up by the Trump administration.
DICKERSON: So Major, the number of arrests today, match that to what JD Vance said, which was that he basically said wanted a million of such arrests in a year. Is that possible?
GARRETT: The numbers really help us understand whether it is, John. In the last 20 years, this country has never deported even 500,000 individuals in a single year. The highest number was 409,000 under President Obama in 2012. The highest Trump number, 2019: 267,000. To reach a million would require a vast expansion of federal immigration resources that are not currently available.
DUBOIS: That’s really a steep climb there. Major Garrett, thank you so much.
DICKERSON: Thanks, Major.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
1/28/25
6:38 PM
LESTER HOLT: Another cornerstone of the Trump Administration, cracking down on undocumented migrants, playing out here in New York today as we learn of a quota for arrests. Here is Gabe Gutierrez.
GABE GUTIERREZ: Tonight, New York City at the center of President Trump's escalating crackdown on illegal immigration. Federal agents arresting an alleged ringleader for the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua they say is wanted for kidnapping and assault. New Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in body armor overseeing the roundup.
KRISTI NOEM: We are getting the dirtbags off these streets.
GUTIERREZ: President Trump last night touting the ongoing arrests.
DONALD TRUMP: We are throwing them the hell out of our country. We have no apologies and we are moving forward very fast.
GUTIERREZ: Two sources familiar with the planning confirmed to NBC News ICE leadership told their agents to increase their arrests of undocumented immigrants to 1,200 to 1,500 per day nationwide. One source calling it a quota, adding agents may be penalized for not meeting it. if Across the country, Trump's deportations are sparking both fierce backlash…
BRANDON JOHNSON: There’s a goal here to stoke fear into the American people.
GUTIERREZ: And strong support.
RANDOM NEW YORKER: I’m real happy it’s happening. Very happy, actually.
GUTIERREZ: After NBC News reported half of undocumented immigrants arrested Sunday had no prior criminal record besides being in the country illegally, NBC’s Peter Alexander asking The White House:
PETER ALEXANDER: So is violent offenders no longer the predicate for these people to be deported?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you are an individual, a foreign national, who illegally enters the United States of America, you are by definition a criminal.
GUTIERREZ: The cost of all of this can be staggering. Two sources familiar with the process tell NBC News deporting one migrant runs around $10,500. Here in New York, city officials estimate it costs an average of $352 a night to house asylum seekers.
GUTIERREZ (SPEAKING SPANISH): Are you afraid?
KATHERINE ESPANCHA (SPEAKING SPANISH): Truthfully, yes.
GUTIERREZ: Katherine Espancha from Venezuela said she and her daughters had stayed at this hotel, a migrant shelter, for six months. That could be a price tag to taxpayers of more than $63,000.
And three sources familiar with the planning tell NBC News that large-scale arrests will now happen in three U.S. cities per week. Lester.
HOLT: Gabe Gutierrez in New York. Thank you.
NOTICIERO UNIVISION
1/28/25
6:34 PM
ILIA CALDERON: In New York, the Secretary of Homeland Security led an immigration raid in The Bronx. Let's see who was arrested.
PEGGY CARRANZA: Forcing doors while many were still sleeping, dozens of heavily armed federal agents carried out multiple operations in The Bronx, even accompanied by the Secretary of Homeland Security, who showed one of the arrested people inside a van. He was allegedly wanted for kidnapping, assault and robbery. "We are in New York. We are going to (take the dirtbags out)," she said. The man allegedly belongs to the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang and is linked to the invasion of a building in Aurora, Colorado. "He is helpful and friendly," said his neighbor. Another operation was carried out in this building, where agents arrested a Dominican who was wanted by Interpol for homicide. A woman who lives in the same building described the commotion.
RESIDENT: They knocked and knocked and knocked and showed the photo of the person they were looking for. He is a hard-working kid and I don't know his status nor do I know anything about him.
CARRANZA: A Venezuelan was also handcuffed and released after showing an immigration document:
MIGRANT: I felt a little scared, but since I'm fine in my process. He who owes nothing, fears nothing.
CARRANZA: They arrested about 1,200 undocumented immigrants in a single day in several states. Regarding their criminal history, this was the answer. "They all violated the laws of OUR nation and are therefore criminals," said the White House spokeswoman. The mayor said police collaborated with agents as permitted by law in an operation to arrest an individual linked to multiple crimes.
CALDERON: The images you see on your screens correspond to the moment when the ICE agents beat the door of a house in Chicago with an iron bar, to the point of knocking it down. In this case, they then proceed to arrest a family of undocumented (migrants).
NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO
1/28/25
6:35 PM
JULIO VAQUEIRO: We continue with the immigration operations. ICE reported 969 arrests in a single day. The agency plans operations in three large cities per week. This Sunday they (conducted them) in Chicago, today in New York. And it is expected that Thursday (they) will be in Aurora, Colorado. This is according to numerous sources who confirmed the information to our sister network NBC News. On this map we see the amount of cities that have already seen raids- from Los Angeles to Miami, from Seattle to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from coast to coast. But what happened today in New York? Let's go with Karla Amezola. She prepared this report. Karla, how are you? Good evening.
KARLA AMEZOLA: That's right. How are you, Julio? Good evening. Well, today it was New York City's turn. The Secretary of Homeland Security traveled here to the city to lead these raids in some parts of New York. Specifically, they managed to catch a person in The Bronx- a person who had a criminal record. And they are linking him with being a member of Tren de Aragua. He is 25-year-old Anderson Zambrano Pacheco. Apparently they had been following him from Aurora, Colorado, and it was here that they managed to find him. He is accused of kidnapping, extortion and robbery. Agencies, ice agents in conjunction with the DEA and also with the NYPD participated in this major operation. And given this, the mayor of New York City said that he ordered New York officials to coordinate with the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to specifically carry out this arrest of the man with the last name Zambrano.
VAQUEIRO: Now, it is important to say that this raid in New York was not the only one that occurred today in the country.
AMEZOLA: Well, no, it was not the only one in the country and not here in the city, either. There was another one in Washington Heights, where we don't have a number of arrests. Authorities have not said if they detained anyone, but we know they entered an apartment building in northern New York. This in Westchester, in Westchester county. We know they entered a residence. They are seen through a video knocking on the door. Entering the front yard. However, we have information that no person was taken from there either. And also at the national level- well, there was a raid and the arrest of 12 people who we don't know if they had a criminal record. This happened in Florida and the authorities are still investigating and we are waiting for more information, Julio.
VAQUEIRO: Yes, the final numbers of the day. Thank you, Karla.
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