I’ve seen a whole bunch of outrage over this story from liberals who rarely if ever seem curious about the full details of an arrest by ICE. The media mostly just fueled the outrage part:
ICE detains man who was driving pregnant wife to hospital to give birth https://t.co/qdH9somYuH pic.twitter.com/Kowuo71Unh
— FOX 7 Austin (@fox7austin) August 19, 2018
Surveillance footage shows ICE agents detaining a man in California stopped at a gas station who was bringing his pregnant wife to the hospital for the delivery of their baby. https://t.co/NrzXyHktdH pic.twitter.com/kesN7U37aW
— ABC News (@ABC) August 18, 2018
ICE detains California man driving pregnant wife to hospital for delivery https://t.co/9lp7v3mh2A
— UPI.com (@UPI) August 19, 2018
ICE arrested a man driving his pregnant wife to give birth. She drove herself to the hospital. https://t.co/Pi8Qw0217U
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 18, 2018
Many were quick to jump on it, because, you know, Trump’s president and everything is inhumane now:
This is despicable. Is this what our country has become, taking fathers away when driving their wife to the hospital to give birth? I'm disgusted.
— Amy Dixon-Kolar (@AmyDixonKolar) August 18, 2018
ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Deliver Their Baby … Where is our humanity? https://t.co/kbM1P8fUTz
— Claire Smith (@MzCSmith) August 19, 2018
ICE arrests man bringing pregnant wife to hospital.
Feel safer? https://t.co/WTMladL4u0
— David Leopold (@DavidLeopold) August 18, 2018
What in the world? This is terrible. Enough of this racial profiling. https://t.co/jQXr3ptFmH
— Elaine (@Tinkerbell3108) August 19, 2018
What country is this? I became a US citizen because I love this country and the freedom I had. When, where and why did the gov start using gestapo type forces?
A pregnant woman and her husband on the way to give birth??? Really? #disgusted— Peter Frampton (@peterframpton) August 18, 2018
ICE…. Destroying one life at a time. Wait I'm wrong as they destroy multiple lives at once directly or indirectly https://t.co/CyvQGwW11f
— M G (@WoPSufir) August 19, 2018
Rep. Joe Kennedy and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau were among the outraged:
This is monstrous. https://t.co/DKMDIE4YcL
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) August 18, 2018
There’s heartless and then there’s whatever the hell this is. https://t.co/qWgPoJ2ABe
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) August 18, 2018
If Kennedy thinks that’s heartless wait until he sees “Chappaquiddick”! But I digress…
Sounds like ICE is pretty awful, right? Oh, but there’s an important bit of context to add to the story that some media outlets might not be too quick to put out there since it pours a bit of cold water on the outrage. At least some media outlets are following up with all the facts:
Man who was arrested while taking his pregnant wife to the hospital is wanted for murder in Mexico, ICE says. https://t.co/uSdSNvIK3N
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 19, 2018
Update: ICE is claiming the man detained while he was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital had an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Mexico on homicide charges https://t.co/d1XdiEkcEa
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 19, 2018
THAT detail won’t get nearly the circulation that the first part of the story received.
