Leak of ICE Agent Data Prompts Mainstream Tears, Ignores Border Horrors
The Independent breathlessly reports on the alleged doxxing of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents, framing it as a dire threat to these 'public servants.' The article details how a website, ICE List, aims to identify those involved in an agency often accused of human rights abuses. Apparently, the sanctity of an agent's personal data is paramount, while the personal dignity and often
fabricated-by-ICE records of asylum seekers are, well, collateral damage. One might wonder if the same outrage is reserved for the thousands of children separated from their parents, or the reported deaths in ICE custody due to alleged medical neglect. This selective empathy (or selective amnesia) is a common media trick. We're meant to feel deep sympathy for agents whose identities are revealed,
but the documented horrors committed by these very agencies—from inadequate medical care to physical and psychological abuse in detention centers—rarely receive such prominent, heartfelt coverage. It appears some personal information is more precious than others. (How many detainees have had their personal information weaponized by the state, without a single mainstream media tear?)