Month: February 2026
PROPAGANDA: CBS News Desperately Tries to Create New ICE Victims
Immigration is shaping up to be the hit-button issue of this midterm election. One drawback, though, is that these types of stories require a steady flow of victims in order to keep the issue in front of the public. With the unrest in Minnesota off the news, CBS News thinks they may have struck gold.
Watch as Matt Gutman goes to Idaho to investigate an ICE raid and is tipped off about an ACLU lawsuit:
The thing about immigration as a hot-button issue is that it requires fresh victims in order to remain on the front-page. Watch as CBS News goes fishing in Idaho: pic.twitter.com/e1UTtEUSeg
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: Second, in another CBS News exclusive tonight, a question of tactics in the story of an immigration raid in rural Idaho. While allegedly focused on Mexican cartel activity, the raid, in fact, swept up more than 300 U.S. citizens, along with 100 undocumented immigrants, just five of whom were later arrested on gambling charges. In the process, children as young as 14 were zip-tied and questioned on their immigration status. Here is chief national correspondent Matt Gutman.
PROTESTER: Are you going to shoot me if I don’t…?
GUTMAN: When about 200 armed agents stormed this horse racing event in rural Idaho, Anabel Romero said she had no idea who they were.
ANABEL ROMERO: All I’m asking for clarification. Who are you? Why am I being detained?
GUTMAN: And their response?
ROMERO: Their response? I’m going to blow your [bleep] head off.
GUTMAN: Canyon County share Kieran Donahue was there on horseback.
KIERAN DONAHUE: So this was a very, very large-scale operation, maybe the largest I’ve ever been involved with.
GUTMAN: The sheriff says nearly 500 people were at the October 19th event. 375 of them U.S. citizens or legal residents, including some 60 children. The sheriff says the event was linked to Mexican cartel activity and asked ICE to join. But so far only five people have been arrested for nonviolent, illegal gambling. In a lawsuit filed tonight, the ACLU is accusing Donahue and the federal government of using excessive force, including against children.
JENN ROLNICK BORCHETTA: Law enforcement should not be zip-tying children. They have done long-lasting damage to children.
GUTMAN: Can you show me, SueHey, where you had bruises?
SUEHEY ROMERO: I had bruises all right here among both wrists.
GUTMAN: Romero and her 14-year-old daughter SueHey, both U.S. citizens, say agents herded them along with Romero’s 2 younger children to the racetrack.
Was it scary, you two?
There, officers zip-tied SueHey. That’s her 8-year-old sister by her side.
SUEHEY: I was there, like, crying. I can’t even get words out. I was, like, struggling. Can’t even get words out.
GUTMAN: With her hands bound behind her back, Romero says she was unable to console her daughter.
ROMERO: I can’t hug her. I can’t hold her because these guys won’t let me go, and I’m like she’s only 14.
GUTMAN: In an email, the Department of Homeland Security first told CBS News it was a conspiracy theory, and in a second email they denied ICE agents zip tied children.
DONAHUE: The youngest that was zip-tied was 16 years old, and he had a mustache. There were kids in there. They weren’t zipped — those little ones were not zip tied.
GUTMAN: This is a picture of SueHey, we met her this morning, she is 14 years old. She is, I would say, a child, a girl who was zip tied, and these are the bruises from those zip ties. Have you seen or heard that?
DONAHUE: No, I had not. I had not seen that. But I will tell you this. I’ve been in this business a long time. I haven’t gone against gang members who are a lot younger than that.
GUTMAN: She was with her 6-year-old brother and 8-year-old sister.
DONAHUE: But you are taking that out of context. We do not know her-
GUTMAN: What kind of context do you need? There is a girl with two small children with her, how dangerous could she possibly be?
DONAHUE: We don’t know.
GUTMAN: Now the sheriff is facing community backlash.
Have ties been broken with your community?
To some degree, I believe they have come absolutely.
ROMERO: My parents, they came over here to the United States to give us a better life, so we didn’t have to suffer, and that day, I felt like our freedom was taken away from us.
GUTMAN: Matt Gutman, CBS News, Wilder, Idaho.
The first inconsistency with this story appears to be the balance of U.S. citizens to illegal aliens. When Tony Dokoupil introduces the story he makes reference to 300 citizens and 100 illegal aliens. Matt Gutman refers to 375 U.S. citizens or legal residents plus 60 children- deemphasizing the number of illegal aliens present, or whether there are any at all.
There is an effort to make the raid resemble Minneapolis or Chicago, but this event went down at a local horse racing track. Hence, the arrests for illegal gambling. The local sheriff indicates that there was suspicion of cartel activity, but this is deemphasized in the report.
There is a clear dispute as to which minors were zip-tied. But this doesn’t get earnestly resolved. Instead, we get Gutman yelling at the sheriff and asking him whether he’s lost standing in the community. There seemed to be little interest in getting to anything else than establishing the next round of immigration victims for the next several cycles in order to further undermine law enforcement.
I will note that there is still no coverage of the illegal alien truck driver that killed four Amish in Indiana. If only those Amish were rainbow flags…
If only the 4 Indiana Amish killed by an illegal alien truck driver were rainbow flags, they might garner coverage on the CBS Evening News pic.twitter.com/OgH42Pz6Jp
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026
FBI Has ‘Substantiated’ Irregularities in Georgia 2020 Vote Counts, Probing If They Were Intentional
The FBI has "substantiated" some major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia’s largest urban area in the aftermath of the 2020 election and is probing whether those failures were intentional efforts to violate federal election law, according to a bombshell affidavit unsealed by a federal court on Tuesday.
FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans first filed the affidavit last month to establish probable cause for a raid that seized about 700 boxes of Georgia 2020 elections ballots from a storage warehouse in the Atlanta area, after getting a referral from Trump Whote House election integrity czar Kurt Olsen.
Big Three Networks Skip Violent Protest In Minneapolis, Only Fox News Covers
Violent anti- ICE protests have continued to take place in Minneapolis despite a reduction in the number of agents on the ground in the state of Minnesota. Last Saturday, more than 40 demonstrators were arrested during a violence filled gathering outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, following a memorial for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were both shot and killed by ICE Agents in January. State and local police were involved, dangerous objects were thrown, one officer was struck in the head, but the big three nightly news shows have been silent.
On their weekend and Monday night broadcasts, ABC, CBS and NBC all skipped the story, with only Monday’s Special Report With Bret Baier on Fox News Channel providing coverage. Baier led into the report by introducing Steve Harrigan: "Protests against immigration enforcements in Minnesota are showing no signs of letting up. Police arrested dozens of people over the weekend as one demonstration became dangerous. Correspondent Steve Harrigan has our update tonight from Minneapolis."
Harrigan’s report would feature behavior that turned violent in broad daylight.
HARRIGAN: Violent anti-ICE protests in front of the federal building in Minneapolis followed a script this weekend seen here dozens of times… Demonstrators are told to disperse. But instead throw bottles and pieces of ice at officers, and one vehicle was destroyed. One Hanson County Deputy was injured when he was hit in the head with an object. There has not been an update to the deputy’s condition. But what came next after the chaos was different.
POLICE ON SPEAKER: You are under arrest. Be seated where you are.
HARRIGAN: The 42 arrested did not simply receive citations before being released… Instead local police jailed them with charges ranging from rioting to assault.
Police, many not ICE Agents, assisting and coming under attack, proving that it doesn’t matter which uniform the law is wearing, the protesters don’t respect any of them. Newsworthy? Harrigan continued with a broader look at the new reality on the ground, both from law enforcement and the lawbreakers.
HARRIGAN: Similar signs of improved cooperation between local and federal law enforcement could be spotted in neighborhoods around Minneapolis, where agitators encourage residents to set up mini blockades with whatever bulky objects are at hand. The goal, to slow down and harass ICE agents on patrol throughout the city… But now some cases it is local police, not federal agents, who are dismantling and removing the blockades and bearing the brunt of the anger in attacks from those who built them.
We then see video of a man in a truck, blocking the street and being told to leave, all the while arguing with and cursing at the local officer. And Harrigan closed by noting that ICE has reduced its presence in Minneapolis by 700, with some two thousand agents remaining.
The closest that any of the three networks came to this story was Saturday on the CBS Weekend News, where anchor Jericka Duncan did a voice-over of a short report on the actual memorial event mentioned earlier, held right before the violence started, and an update on 5 year old Liam Ramos. The protests looked peaceful and musical, lots of bias by omission.
"Today marks one month since the killing of Renee Good by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis. Hundreds gathered in the city for a public memorial, honoring Good as well as ICU nurse Alex Pretti who was killed two weeks ago today. And an update on 5-year-old Liam Ramos, the boy behind this image that rocketed around the world. Just days after he and his father were released from a Texas detention center, the Trump administration is escalating efforts to deport them."
You can see Rep. Ilhan Omar holding Liam’s Spiderman backpack, which is supposed to be adorable. I guess Duncan didn’t know that the boy’s father ran away from ICE Agents, leaving the boy alone, and then his mom refused to open the door of her home to take him in, all before he was sent away with his father. As for why she and the others didn’t give the latest Minneapolis riot a mention, it’s not something that fits the leftist narrative.
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