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Media Spreads Two New Lies Aimed At Smearing ICE, Trump
May 28, 2018

Multiple journalists, activists, and former Obama administration officials spread blatant falsehoods during Memorial Day weekend aimed at smearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration.

The first false claim involved a news report showing photos of children in detention centers lying on floors that CNN's Hadas Gold, former Obama official Jon Favreau, Shaun King, and Linda Sarsour all shared and promoted as being recent when, in fact, the photos were from 2014, during the Obama administration.

Amazing pic.twitter.com/rMX3E38LS3
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 27, 2018

Gold later took down her tweet because she claimed that it "gave [the] impression" that the photos were recent, despite the fact that she said in her tweet that the photos were recent.

No you did not “give the impression”. You flat out said it. pic.twitter.com/kGJ2PmPVgT
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 27, 2018

The second falsehood promoted by the media came from ABC13 Houston's Antonio Arellano, who tweeted a photo of a bus that is used at a detention center.

Arellano wrote: "ICE's largest family detention center, Karnes County Residential Center in Texas, run by contractor GEO Group, has a prison bus just for babies."

ICE's largest family detention center, Karnes County Residential Center in Texas, run by contractor GEO Group, has a prison bus just for babies.https://t.co/j282oqp0W8 pic.twitter.com/MYtPAYGNzN
— Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) May 27, 2018

This is a blatantly false statement. The link he included in his tweet even states that the bus was used to take children who were being detained on field trips. Also, the photo was taken in 2016, during the Obama administration.

This is a bus that takes children in immigration detention on educational field trips. That seems like a good thing. Also, the photo is from 2016. https://t.co/ipSgoJtPPD
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) May 28, 2018

ABC13 Houston did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

Arellano's false claim was also spread by left-wing activists, celebrities, and journalists who used it to attack ICE and the Trump administration:

This is what we've come to under Donald Trump. Men and women of conscience, raise your voices. THIS IS WRONG. https://t.co/g651l75CmL
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 28, 2018

A prison bus just for babies. https://t.co/M1axulAEJj
— David Roberts (@drvox) May 28, 2018

Y'all, what kind of country are we living in? This is crazy. https://t.co/suc32RZZs8
— mark riffenburg (@ItsJustMarkNV) May 27, 2018

Crimes against humanity... https://t.co/Q6wqvzU7B9
— Michael Deibert (@michaelcdeibert) May 28, 2018

TAKE A GOOD LOOK, FOLKS! #WhereAreTheChildren? This is Trump's America & the GOP is complicit. #VoteBlue & #FireTheGOP https://t.co/NKtFYLb9D6
— Chet Powell (@ChetPowell) May 28, 2018

These deceptive claims come just after the media spread three blatant falsehoods over the past two weeks: falsely suggesting that Israel was shooting innocent civilians, that President Trump called all illegal immigrants "animals," and that the school shooter at Santa Fe High School used an "assault rifle."

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31155/media-spreads-two-new-lies-aimed-smearing-ice-ryan-saavedra