Obama-Era CNN Segment Shows Different ICE Coverage Compared to Trump Years

The target was shown being arrested as Brown informed viewers that ICE had surveillance on the person for “a while.”

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“He’s going to be processed, they’re going to fingerprint him, ask him questions, and there is a whole process that goes into place before anyone is deported,” Brown said.

CNN then followed ICE agents who arrested their third target of the morning as his criminal history was explained to viewers

“He is a criminal, he has extensive criminal history, and by taking him out of the community, it’s making the community safer and that’s ICE’s purpose,” the agent told viewers. When ICE agents came up to a man at work, he tried to run away, but they let him go when they realized he wasn’t a target. Brown then took viewers inside an ICE processing center and talked to a man who was going to be deported.

2 of them were released because they didn’t have criminal records.”

X account @mazemoore dug up and shared the video, noting that CNN didn’t appear critical of ICE at the time. However, conservatives say that the ten-year-old segment shows how media outlets covered ICE more favorably under Obama than under Trump, when ICE has mostly been criticized for how it enforces immigration laws.