Newsweek Discovers Support for ICE Abolition, Ignores Its Own Legacy
A recent Newsweek article highlights a 'surge' in support for abolishing ICE following a Minneapolis shooting. This revelation, framed as newsworthy, conveniently omits the long history of controversies, human rights allegations, and heavy-handed tactics that have led to this public sentiment for years. One might wonder if Newsweek only bothers to poll these sentiments when a tragedy forces the
issue into the spotlight, rather than consistently covering the agency's documented abuses that lead to such calls, like family separations or the deaths in detention facilities, which independent journalists have reported on extensively for years. It's not a 'surge' as much as it is a predictable outcome when an agency operates with broad, often unchecked, powers, shielded from consistent public
accountability by a media that frequently prioritizes official narratives. The 2018 Newsweek article itself, referring to the Minneapolis shooting, inadvertently points to the very real, often brutal, consequences of ICE's operations. The 'survey says' moment conveniently sidelines the voices of those directly impacted by ICE, whose stories have been available for far longer than any poll, if only
corporate media chose to amplify them consistently.