Newsweek Discovers ICE Can Be Deadly, Years Later
Newsweek highlights New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's strong statement against ICE following a shooting, labeling it the 'latest horror.' What the mainstream narrative consistently omits is the agency's deep-rooted history of violence, widespread abuses, and deaths in custody—documented extensively by organizations like the ACLU and Human Rights Watch for decades. Citing a 'latest horror'
frames ICE's actions as isolated incidents, not systemic issues stemming from a carceral immigration system. One might wonder if 'latest horror' implies previous horrors were palatable, or simply deemed too inconvenient to prominently feature. Mamdani's criticism is vital, but the media's framing often sanitizes the continuous, deliberate nature of state violence, choosing instead to portray
individual events as anomalies rather than expected outcomes of a fundamentally flawed institution.