U.S. Citizen Sues ICE After Detention Despite Valid ID

Published OCT 2

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Above: ICE agents at the U.S. Immigration Court in New York on July 24, 2025. Image copyright: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

Despite the occasional mistake, ICE is not the rogue agency that mainstream media depicts. It enforces long-standing law through intelligence-driven, legally authorized operations, not indiscriminate raids. Coverage that paints lawful detention as imprisonment or portrays deportations as tyranny distorts reality, vilifies officers, and undermines the rule of law.

The Gateway Pundit U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Establishment-critical narrative

ICE's record is one of staggering cruelty and incompetence. Wrongfully detaining citizens, tearing families apart, and trapping even lifelong Americans in legal nightmares, it operates with reckless disregard for rights or humanity. That such an agency can so casually upend lives shows not strength but dysfunction — a machinery that mistakes brutality for law.

USC Annenberg Media The New York Times