On Thursday afternoon ICE agents in NYC shot and wounded a 28 year old man, who DHS called, “a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic” as he attempted to flee, by reportedly accelerating his car at the agents, while a five year old boy was in the back seat. As expected, before knowing the facts the leftist media trashed ICE, as was the case on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip.
Near the top of her show, Phillip did tell viewers, “DHS says that the man is a longtime criminal, here illegally with ties to gangs.” She then added, “And all of this comes as the tensions are rising in American streets. ICE agents were told to ramp up daily arrests ahead of the midterm elections.”
Phillip did not name her source, but was likely referring to a CNN story from earlier in the day which cited two unnamed sources, to claim ICE leadership told agents to make an additional 1,000 arrests per day. The story notes, “ICE returns to a previous White House imposed push to arrest 3,000 people a day.”
It should be noted that last month on CNN’s Inside Politics, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin denied there was ever an arrest quota. “I’ve never talked to anybody at the White House about any quota.” Phillip did not bother to mention this, before throwing it to reporter Shimon Prokupecz near the site of the shooting, who after admitting little was known, still went after ICE.
PROKUPECZ: The circumstances surrounding the shooting is unknown….The Department of Homeland Security says that they were involved in an operation, a targeted operation. This is what we hear from them after these shootings. Just another incident involving ICE officers and car stops, and something happened here. We don’t know why they decided to shoot at this man.
So CNN doesn’t have any information yet. Prokupecz was just full of… questions.
PROKUPECZ: Abby, I have covered so many of these now and it just seems that time and time again, the way in which ICE is conducting these operations those operations need to be questioned. Why at 4:00 in the afternoon they are targeting individuals in this way? Those are all questions that need to be answered.We know that ICE — our reporting from Priscilla Alvarez, that ICE is stepping up operations and now this happens.
Alvarez co-authored the CNN piece referenced earlier, which gave Phillip a chance to repeat what those unnamed sources said.
PHILLIP: As you just mentioned, the ramping up of arrests, this is part of a mandate that has come down from the highest levels of the federal government to go from 1,000 to 2,000 to 3,000 arrests potentially per day leading up to the midterm elections.
She then tossed a softball, using the premise of these mandates, which Mullin has denied.
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