DW Discovers ICE Shootings, Forgetting Decades of US Border Violence
Deutsche Welle's latest dispatch highlights widespread rallies concerning 'ICE shootings,' framing it as a sudden, almost unexpected surge of public unrest. This narrative conveniently sidesteps the consistent, documented pattern of violence, abuse, and even deaths at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) going back to their inception in
2003. (Sources like the ACLU and Human Rights Watch have cataloged innumerable instances of excessive force and civil rights violations long before rallies became 'hundreds.') Instead of connecting these 'shootings' to the agency's brutal institutional culture—a culture routinely funded and enabled by bipartisan political consensus—DW presents it as an isolated event sparking fresh outrage. It's
almost as if the cameras only start rolling when the optics become undeniable, rather than when the suffering began. How many 'shootings' and abuses did it take to register as news worth 'hundreds' of rallies?