ABC's 'World News Tonight' fails to mention Minnesota church arrests during ICE segment
ABC’s “World News Tonight” reported Thursday that a gang had been killed in St. failed to report the arrest of three anti-ICE agitators after they attacked a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota; instead, it focused on the alleged detention of a five-year-old child by ICE in the same state.
ABC host David Muir opened the nearly two-and-a-half-minute segment on ICE by addressing the “growing outrage” over reports that a five-year-old boy in Minnesota had been detained by ICE and used as “bait” to capture his father, an illegal immigrant.
While the episode focused almost entirely on the Minnesota boy’s alleged detention, it skipped another major ICE-related development of the same week: the arrest of several anti-ICE agitators who disrupted a church service.
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ABC’s disregard for Minnesota church protest arrests was first noticed by NewsBusters editor-in-chief Curtis Houck. called the network X Thursday for not containing “a single word” about the arrests.
ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Other evening broadcasts, such as NBC’s “Nightly News” and CBS’s “Evening News,” are based in St. He briefly covered the arrest of St. Paul church agitators. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen and William Kelly were arrested in connection with the protest.
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Despite widespread reports that the Minnesota child was “detained” by federal immigration officials, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rejected that characterization.
According to DHS, the five-year-old was not taken into custody by ICE but was instead “abandoned” during an immigration enforcement operation.
After Democrats — including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. – The White House responded in a statement to Fox News Digital, after sharing a photo of a five-year-old child online and claiming that he was arrested by ICE on his way home from preschool.
White House press secretary Abigail Jackson condemned the Trump administration’s views that the mainstream media was working “hand-in-hand with Democrats to spread malicious falsehoods about ICE operations.”
“It’s a shame that the media was so quick to engage in fake Democrat rhetoric without getting the facts,” Jackson said. “The truth is: ICE officers are working heroically, in a highly professional manner, to make American communities safer. In this case, they were left with a child abandoned by his father, an illegal alien from Ecuador.”
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On ABC News’ website, the exit was posted an article The news titled “5-year-old asylum seeker detained as ICE expands enforcement in Minnesota” frames the headline that portrays the child’s “detention” as fact, although DHS denies this claim.
Although the news later included DHS’s statement: “ICE did not target a child. The child WAS ABANDONED.” – this statement was buried at the bottom of the page rather than in the headline.
As stated The Daily Beast, published in X by American Compass managing editor Drew Holden, a similar title: “ICE Detained 5-Year-Old After School” also confirms the claim.
