{"id":21894,"date":"2019-09-05T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21894"},"modified":"2019-09-05T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:06:19","slug":"anti-ice-media-sanctuary-policy-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/09\/05\/anti-ice-media-sanctuary-policy-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media\u2019s Willful Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Less than three weeks after shots were fired into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in San Antonio in a \u201ctargeted attack,\u201d<\/a> the Associated Press<\/a> reported about a woman hurling a Molotov cocktail into the lobby of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offices in Oakland Park, Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement and government officials do not\nbelieve they were coordinated, but they do see the incidents as part of a troubling\ntrend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday\u2019s attempted attack on one of our USCIS facilities using a Molotov cocktail is another example of the use of violence in place of debate by those who oppose the proper application of our immigration laws,\u201d tweeted<\/a> acting USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli after last Friday\u2019s incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Combs likewise saw\nthe last month\u2019s shooting in San Antonio as unquestionably targeted political\nviolence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there is a question that they knew which floor the ICE office is on. To fire indiscriminately into any building is not an act of a protest but an act of violence,\u201d he said<\/a>, adding that there was \u201cno question a very targeted attack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the events were different in location, the\nmeans of attack and specific target, there are similarities. The violence was\naimed at immigration-related agencies at a time of increasingly inflammatory\nrhetoric. That no individuals were hurt was sheer luck. Oh, and most media\noutlets have ignored or turned a blind eye to the individual incidents, as well\nas the collective pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest incident in Florida, which was captured on surveillance\nvideo, involved 35-year-old Cellicia Hunt who was detained at the scene and\nsubsequently charged with maliciously attempting to damage or destroy a\ngovernment building by fire, according to the AP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But little else is known about her specific motive, political\nassociations, social media activity or any of the other details that frequently\nemerge after planned or potentially politically-inspired attacks. For instance,\nthere has been no mention of what happened at Hunt\u2019s scheduled Tuesday\nappearance in a Ft. Lauderdale federal courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No lawmakers, including the two Democratic members who\nrepresent the district in which the attack took place and in which Hunt resided,\nhave commented. And no reporters have sought them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, they are too busy ignoring the growing number of anti-immigration enforcement assaults<\/a> that have occurred in the last two months. Perhaps, they are too focused on not reporting on the equally disturbing criminal trends in the sanctuary county that sits in the backyard of the nation\u2019s capital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except for some superb reporting by reporters for the local ABC and Fox affiliates, there has been a national media blackout concerning illegal immigrant crime in Montgomery County, Maryland. This week, authorities in the sanctuary county made their seventh arrest of an illegal alien<\/a> on charges of rape or sexual assault \u2013 since July. Several of the assaults were so depraved and violent that details could not be printed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a reporter\u2019s job to, well, report the facts\nwithout concern for political implications or blowback. When members of the\npress pick one side of a policy issue over another, the truth and transparency\nwill always lose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Less than three weeks after shots were fired into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in San Antonio in a \u201ctargeted attack,\u201d the Associated Press reported about a woman hurling a Molotov cocktail into the lobby of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offices in Oakland Park, Florida. Law enforcement and government officials do<\/p>\n

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