A February 9 CBS News story is headlined “Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows”. That claim has had such an impact that it made its way across Twitter into a House DHS oversight hearing. But it’s just the latest iteration of a common trope that reveals such a deep misunderstanding of immigration law that it’s either part of a coordinated effort to undermine ICE enforcement efforts or the latest example of the deleterious impacts of tendentious herd mentality.
" A Little More Light and a Little Less Noise"
f the current president has anything besides political affiliation in common with Abraham Lincoln, it’s their shared mistreatment by the press.
Most history books fail to mention that the 16th president was regularly ridiculed and derided by the “Fourth Estate”, and Lincoln — like Trump — often gave as good as he got.
Here’s one anecdote from the White House Historical Association website:
Lincoln sarcastically likened newspapermen to a story he told of a man lost in the forest at night during a thunderstorm. The man dropped to his knees, “O Lord, if it is all the same to you, give us a little more light and a little less noise!” Lincoln wished the same from the press.
For all the “noise” in the media over immigration enforcement, ICE officers are doing what Congress told them to do in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Let me explain the rules and what such analyses have left out, accidentally or deliberately.
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