
<p>The latest ICE story has the media, political pundits and politicians on MS NOW accusing ICE of taking a 5-year-old child, Liam Conejo Ramos, into custody and taking him to a detention camp in Texas. It is a heartbreaking story – snatching a child off the street. Terrorizing him, the family and the entire human race. (Okay! That is an exaggeration &#8212; but no more than the MS NOW spin.)</p>



<p>The target of ICE enforcement was the father of the child, Adrian Conejo Arias. He was apprehended with the child outside the family home after a brief chase.</p>



<p>If you flipped over to CNN, you would get a remarkably different version of the story – a more accurate version. This is how the action really went down.</p>



<p>Yes, ICE approached the father, who was with his son. They took the father into custody as an illegal alien. Whether past criminal activities were involved has not been indicated in the initial reports – although Conejo Arias was breaking the law at the time by resisting arrest.</p>



<p>Following Conejo Arias’ capture, agents then took the child to his home and knocked on the door. They asked the mother to open the door so the child could enter. She refused repeatedly.</p>



<p>(I have to digress. What sort of mother would refuse to take in her own child? She preferred to leave her child in the cold and in a chaotic, uncertain and potentially dangerous situation outside her door. I know. What kind of mother does that? I am sorry, but as a parent, that behavior strikes me as callous disregard for the young child. But that is a different story.)</p>



<p>After several failed attempts, the father asked that the child be brought with him. The child was not arrested or officially detained. He was placed in protective custody until the matter could be resolved. The father and the child were then brought to a detention center in Texas designed for families – with cafeteria, classrooms and play areas. ICE has such centers because families because children are occasionally picked up with parents or alone. It is the same procedure when police arrest adult criminals with children. They cannot just leave a young child on the street – or home alone.</p>



<p>(And speaking of the children. While the left-wing media pounds a largely mendacious narrative about the child, it has ignored the years of horrible abuse inflicted on tens of thousands of children by President Biden’s policies – including beatings, rapes, murders and abandonment. The Trump administration is still attempting to reunite thousand of children allowed to flow into the country under Biden’s wide open borders policies –many used as currency by gangs and drug runners.)</p>



<p>MS NOW provided none of the relevant details of the arrest, but rather created a phony sanitized d politically motivated narrative – propaganda.</p>



<p>MS NOW also claimed that the father was in the country legally – seeking asylum. That was not true. The reports may have conflated the case of a 5-year-old in Minnesota, whose father was applying for asylum. The Chicago father have been the United States illegally for more than 20 years.</p>



<p>The reporting on MS NOW is not a matter of sloppy journalism. The network has been &#8212; and continues to be – a hardcore mendacious propaganda outfit for Democrats and the radical left. They – and others on the left &#8212; provide selective out-of-context information and spin it beyond recognition. MS NOW is not an outlier. It is how MS NOW and many of the left-wing media operate. It is willful disinformation.</p>



<p>There is a reason so few people trust the news media – especially the left, according to polls and ratings. The Washingyon Post’s motto “Democracy Dies in the Dark” should read “Democracy Dies on the Left.”</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

ICE Does Not Arrest Kids … and the media lies
