Media Offenders

NBC News

OUTLET

ABC News, NBC News

REPORTER

Maggie Vespa, Pierre Thomas

CLAIM

ABC, NBC Are Upset ICE Shot a Gangbanger Trying to Run Over an Agent

CATEGORY

Bias, Left-wing lunacy

THE OFFENSE

ABC and NBC implied the Trump Administration’s immigration policies were responsible for the shooting of a man in California, with ABC’s Pierre Thomas describing the incident as demonstrating “just how volatile the [A]dministration’s immigration enforcement campaign remains,” and NBC’s Maggie Vespa drawing a parallel to Minnesota.

THE TRUTH

The man — Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez – was a gang member and wanted murderer who was shot by ICE officers when he attempted to run them over with his car during a targeted vehicle stop. Hernandez’s gang “Barrio 18” and its rival MS-13 are reportedly responsible for roughly 200,000 deaths over three decades.

KEY POINTS

• Legacy media outlets ABC and NBC attempted to incite outrage against heroic ICE officers for successfully defending themselves against a gang member and alleged murderer.

SOURCES

• ICE agents shoot 18th Street Gang member who ‘weaponized his vehicle’ in California
• ABC, NBC Are Upset ICE Shot a Gangbanger Trying to Run Over an Agent
• Jorge Bonilla Post On ABC News
• Jorge Bonilla Post On NBC News
• MS-13 gang member sentenced to 1,335 years in prison, others given hundreds of years in El Salvador
OUTLET

NBC News

REPORTER

Julia Ainsley, Laura Strickler

CLAIM

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows

CATEGORY

Bias

THE OFFENSE

NBC News made a post stating that “more than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories.”

THE TRUTH

ALL illegal aliens have broken the law, and, by NBC’s own admission, the vast majority of illegals arrested by the Trump administration have criminal histories separate from their immigration violations. NBC attempted to slander President Trump’s immigration crackdown, but ultimately just drew attention to the fact the administration has removed 145,000 illegal migrants with criminal records from our streets.

KEY POINTS

• NBC News meant to portray the administration’s immigration crackdown as targeting innocents, but ultimately just brought attention to how many criminal illegals it has removed from civil society.

SOURCES

• NBC News: ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data show
• NBC News’ Post
OUTLET

NBC News

REPORTER

Didi Martinez, Julia Ainsley, Laura Strickler

CLAIM

Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they’re hungry, raise food quality concerns

CATEGORY

Lie

THE OFFENSE

NBC News published an article in which detainees and so-called “immigration advocates” complained about food quality and overcrowding in ICE facilities.

THE TRUTH

The Department of Homeland Security has thoroughly debunked this. No ICE detainee is subject to a lack of food or subprime living conditions.

KEY POINTS

• NBC News published false reports from criminal illegal aliens as fact, ignoring the facts outlined by DHS, and contributed to a false narrative that has driven a 1,000% increase in violence against ICE agents.

SOURCES

• Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they're hungry, raise food quality concerns
• DHS Debunks Georgia Senator’s False Allegations About ICE Detention Centers
OUTLET

NBC News

REPORTER

Curtis Bunn

CLAIM

Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities

CATEGORY

Bias, Malpractice

THE OFFENSE

NBC News released a one-sided article disparaging President Trump’s enhanced law enforcement operations in Washington, D.C.

THE TRUTH

The “immigration advocates” cited in the article are far-left partisan sources who claimed that President Trump’s law enforcement efforts were a “federal coup.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Al Sharpton, Marc Morial, and Derrick Johnson were among the partisans quoted in the article. Bunn’s writing included only two republican voices of dissent, one of which was buried in the bottom of the article.

KEY POINTS

• NBC News’ Curtis Bunn published a one-sided article that overrepresented biased left-wing voices in an effort to undermine President Trump’s law enforcement operations in the nation’s capital.

SOURCES

• Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities
• Brandon Johnson Biography
• Al Sharpton Speaks at 2024 DNC
• Marc Morial's Biography
• Derrick Johnson's Biography

NBC News

ABC, NBC Are Upset ICE Shot a Gangbanger Trying to Run Over an Agent

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows

Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they’re hungry, raise food quality concerns

Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities