ICE officers protected a single young child after the illegal-migrant father was arrested but establishment media outlets are claiming the sheltered child was “detained.”
“ICE detains 5-year-old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait,’” said the NPR headline.
“Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says,” claimed the Star Tribune newspaper in Minnesota.
The “detained” term suggests to readers that the child was arrested, partly because the two terms are often used interchangeably by media outlets.
The media blowup comes as ICE officials are enforcing the nation’s migraiton laws by arresting many illegal migrants, including many who have been ordered home by a federal judge. Some of the migrants have kids — partly because President Joe
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