Legacy media have been sounding the alarm about deportations in Texas, but they are leaving out key details, painting law enforcement as criminals—and criminals as the victims.
One recent example is an investigative article on police in the small town of Ingram, Texas. The Ingram Police Department joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program in 2025, which offers funding in exchange for enforcing immigration law—a major boost for a department with just two officers.
The Texas Tribune profiled Officer Jaron Alexander, who made traffic stops that caught illegal aliens and sent them to federal authorities. As a police officer, he enforced the law. Within a year, he and the town’s only other officer referred a whopping 10% of the town’s population as illegal aliens. The worst thing the outlet dug up about Alexander was allegations of affairs, which he denied.
The real shocker is that illegal aliens allegedly make up at least 10% of Ingram’s population. In fact, Latinos make up 45% of the town’s population—to the point that some have begun calling it “mini Guanajuato,” after the central Mexican state from which many of them came. But this wasn’t the headline for The Texas Tribune. Its story line was that Alexander enforced the law. Since when is a police officer doing his job newsworthy? Many communities across Texas participate in the 287(g) program, including Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth. One wonders why left-wing media would pick on a small town like Ingram.
Legacy media didn’t stop at putting a negative spin on law enforcement. They even went so far as to paint criminals as the real victims in all this—never mind everyday Texans. In CBS’ “60 Minutes,” a reporter paints a sympathetic picture of Moussa Diawara, a Malian national who had lived in the U.S. illegally since 2012. Recently, he had been living in the Houston suburb of Katy.
“[Moussa Diawara] had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record,” the program reported. “Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.”
White House officials and ICE have strongly criticized CBS over its reporting. First of all, Diawara had been breaking the law by staying in the country since his order of removal in 2012. And while an immigration judge did rule he could not be sent back to Mali, federal officials respected that, sending him to Ghana, which sent him to Mali.
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. After the man came to America, he married a woman and had two kids. Why is that relevant? Because when he sought asylum in 2001, he claimed he was a homosexual and used that to try and avoid deportation, according to ICE.
“Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve,” he wrote in his asylum application.
All in all, “60 Minutes” effectively treats Diawara as a regular law-abiding American who was suddenly deported to Mali. As we’ve seen, that could not be farther from the truth. Apparently, the program may not be too concerned with the truth after all.
In an interview with Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival, the outlet omitted some of his key quotes, like the following: “We have laws, Congress passes those laws, we just enforce them. … And this obsession with whether somebody has committed a sufficient crime, an immigration judge has ordered us to remove someone. We’re following an order from an immigration judge.” Meanwhile, it kept these emotional quotes from Diawara: “I cannot call my wife; I can’t contact my lawyer. I can’t talk to no one. I tell them, ‘This is kidnapping. You guys kidnapped us.’”
Time and time again, legacy media have shown they cannot comprehend this simple fact: When criminals break the law, they must face the consequences. This isn’t the fault of law enforcement. It’s the result of their own poor decisions.
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