If you follow what presents itself as "reporting" these days, you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who was used as "bait" to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be arrested. Some claimed the child had been "kidnapped" by ICE.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) rushed to the cameras to promote the "bait" and "kidnapped" narrative. Hillary Clinton said ICE was using children as "pawns," and Kamala Harris also repeated the "bait" label. The women on "The View" echoed the same theme.

Their talking points were wrong. As explained by ICE and Border Patrol, the father of the boy is in the country illegally. They said he had left his son in a car while trying to avoid arrest. ICE officers took the child to a safe place until they were able to detain the father and re-unite the two.

Reporters rarely question the promoters of a false narrative. That........

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