On September 5, two U.S.\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers attempted to arrest 39-year-old\nMexican national Jose Fernando Andrade-Sanchez outside a Food Lion grocery\nstore in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Andrade-Sanchez\nattempted to run over one of the immigration officers with the box truck he was\ndriving. Acting in self-defense, the officer shot him. Wounded, Andrade-Sanchez\nfled the scene but later turned himself in to ICE. Although, you would never\nknow that\u2019s how the story played out based on the vast majority of the mainstream\nmedia coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Describing the shooting, a Tenessean\/USA Today<\/a><\/em> article says that Andrade-Sanchez drove, \u201ctoward one of the officers who was standing in front of the truck.\u201d And the vast majority of the coverage by other outlets is similarly vague and dismissive. Buzzfeed<\/a><\/em> says, \u201cThe man tried to flee the scene in a white box truck and drove toward an agent who then fired two bullets at him.\u201d CNN<\/a><\/em> says that an ICE officer shot Andrade-Sanchez, \u201cas he drove his truck forward and fled the scene.\u201d The clear implication is that ICE shot some poor foreigner who was just minding his own business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In reality, Andrade-Sanchez is an illegal alien criminal<\/a> from Mexico. He was previously deported from the U.S. and unlawfully re-entered the country. He has a domestic assault conviction sustained after he beat his girlfriend senseless and punched her three-year-old child in the face, breaking the toddler\u2019s nose.\u00a0 He later sustained a second conviction for criminal impersonation and failure to identify himself to a police officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ICE had more than adequate cause to\narrest Andrade-Sanchez. While ICE\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility and\nthe FBI are still investigating the incident, it isn\u2019t a stretch to conclude\nthat a man who would beat up a three-year-old would also have no problem\nattempting to run down a federal agent in order to avoid arrest.\nAndrade-Sanchez was very clearly what President Trump would refer to as a \u201cbad\nhombre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But virtually all of the media coverage portrays ICE\u2019s actions<\/a>, not Andrade-Sanchez\u2019s lawless behavior, as the problem. Buzzfeed <\/em>breathlessly noted that the shooting is being investigated by the FBI, as if ICE had committed some type of serious crime. And the LatinoRebels.com<\/a><\/em> website says that residents of the Nashville neighborhood where he was arrested, \u201chave expressed fear and anxiety over the fact that ICE has escalated a civil matter into the use of deadly force.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Such commentary is unconscionably\nmisleading: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than furnishing facts about the immigration situation in the United States and letting the public draw its own conclusions, big media have now appointed themselves the guardian of criminal illegal aliens\u2019 interests. But mainstream news outlets are peddling a dangerous narrative<\/a> that fuels radical demands to abolish<\/a> ICE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Illegal aliens aren\u2019t stupid. Rogue\nmedia outlets and sanctuary jurisdictions flip the script, portraying ICE as\nbad guys and illegal aliens as victims. They send a clear (but false) message\nto immigration violators that they are exempt from complying with the law. And\nthat false narrative creates a dangerous situation for everyone involved:\nillegal aliens, ICE officers and members of the community who happen to be\nbystanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrade-Sanchez survived and a federal grand jury sitting in Nashville has indicted him for criminally re-entering the United States. Now, if only the media would stop indicting ICE for doing its assigned job \u2013 protecting Americans<\/a> from violent criminals like Jose Fernando Andrade-Sanchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On September 5, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers attempted to arrest 39-year-old Mexican national Jose Fernando Andrade-Sanchez outside a Food Lion grocery store in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Andrade-Sanchez attempted to run over one of the immigration officers with the box truck he was driving. Acting in self-defense, the officer<\/p>\n