Subject: Re: Border Apprehensions Lowest Level In Half Century
Says who? Not everyone in a jail hallway has a criminal warrant against them. Not everyone that has a criminal warrant out on them is guilty.

This takes the position that ICE just randomly rounds people up for no reason.

That's not the case. Oh, the democrats and the media want to portray ICE as some kind of malevolent entity randomly driving around in black vans kidnapping people off the street, but that's not how this works: to get on ICE's radar, you probably screwed up.

Take the "ICE arrested dude with the 10 year old" story. On its face it looks bad. But that's why one has to DIG to get to the truth:

https://www.seattletimes.com/s...

Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.

After seeing 10-year-old Karla Tiul Baltazar off to her class, Tiul Caal didn’t make it back to their nearby apartment before he was stopped by federal immigration agents, detained and taken to a Border Patrol office in North Spokane.

Tiul Caal has been in Spokane for six years, said Olga Lucia Herrera, who has been volunteering to help him through court proceedings and regular check-ins with immigration officials in that time. He does not have a criminal record.

Oh, my! The Gestapo tactics!

Complete with all the tugging of the heartstrings. But what happens when one bothers to dig deeper?

https://seattlered.com/seattle...

“He has an active asylum case and a court date for 2027, a valid work permit and a Social Security number, Herrera said,” according to The Spokesman-Review, citing Olga Lucia Herrera, a volunteer helping him navigate court proceedings. They do not explain why he was seeking asylum. “He had made nearly every appointment for a regular check-in with immigration officials, except for a recent date around the holidays when he was having phone problems.”

A later article then quotes Governor Bob Ferguson using this incident to slam President Donald Trump.

The problem? This isn’t true, according to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). And Tiul-Caal’s problems started during the Biden administration.

Whoops.

“In 2023, Tiul-Caal missed three check-in appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE-ERO) and was issued another notice to appear,” according to a CBP spokesperson. “Between Oct. 21, 2024, and May 1, 2025, he missed seven additional check ins with ICE-ERO. On July 10, 2025, Tiul-Caal was terminated from ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program due to noncompliance after seven more violations.”

So. 3+7+7 equals 17 times this guy failed to appear.

What would you have ICE do here?

Again, to get on ICE's radar you have to be some kind of F-up in the first place, like this guy is. 17 chances. How many do you want to give these people?

Here's a great summary:
Readers can disagree with immigration policy. They can dislike detention as a tactic. But they cannot fairly judge what happened if the press sells only the sympathetic half of the story and treats the enforcement half as an inconvenience. How many missed check-ins and terminations from detention alternatives should qualify for detainment? Left-wing media, apparently, believes the number should be endless.

This could have been avoided had the Spokesman-Review, and other outlets like the Seattle Times, didn’t rely on “facts” to be relayed by advocates. Herrera’s claims were uncritically reprinted. No fact-checking at all and it’s unclear how much time the paper even gave to CBP to respond to their questions. This all seems very intentional.

This. The immigration debate in this country is often held in very bad faith.