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‘Injustice Porn’: The Next Big Thing on the Immigration Front

From the Center for Immigration Studies
By Todd Bensman
Anyone wondering what kind of skullduggery is afoot to defeat the new Trump Administration’s imminent deportation operations need look no further than Bakersfield in Kern County in California’s Central Valley.
Surprise Border Patrol sweeps earlier this month – the first large-scale deportation operations anywhere since Trump’s election – picked up some 80 illegally present aliens but also kicked off an emotionally manipulative brand of media propaganda most Americans must call out and reject as operations spread across the nation soon.
I call it “Injustice Porn” – exploitation propaganda that the mass migration advocacy industry, with eager helpers in local, state, and national media, will employ to undermine the current broad political support for Trump’s coming national interior deportation initiative.
What Is Injustice Porn?
Injustice porn is “news” coverage and commentary that emphasizes hyperbolic, emotionally triggering government abuse allegations or migrant sobbing to generate headlines, spin up public outrage, and force government counteraction –before they can be proven false when no one cares much later. Take these few examples where highly inflammatory unverified claims and tragedy stories about immigration enforcement actions proved incredibly effective at undermining public policies before the truth emerged:
- The September 2021 allegations that white agents of the Border Patrol’s Horse Patrol Unit used their reins to whip black Haitian migrants during the Del Rio bridge crisis, claims determined to be without merit 11 months later.
- U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s July 2019 allegation that migrants she met in Trump-era detention centers were forced to drink their water from toilets as part of an organized racist government campaign of “psychological warfare,” a claim strongly disputed by officials who pointed out that clean-water drinking fountains were integrated into apparatuses that also included toilets.
- Allegations that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “death trap” floating marine barrier in the Rio Grande caused the drowning deaths of at least two immigrants upon its summer 2023 installation and that sharp metal gears between buoys wounded others. The allegations were deemed unfounded.
- Allegations in 2018 that Trump’s administration was stuffing “kids in cages” – using video of practices that actually occurred during President Barack Obama’s administration.
- Allegations in 2014 of widespread sexual misconduct by guards in a Texas-based family detention center, which were found to be without evidence by an investigative report. Detention center abuse allegations have proven an especially favored allegation for their ability to gin up widespread national outrage and government action before truth prevails.
There are other popular forms of “injustice porn”, like news videos relating the “plight” of weeping deportee mothers and exploiting young children by staging them in ways engineered to tug at heartstrings. These kinds of “news” stories dehumanize migrants for political advantage in much the same way that makers of abused-pet support shelter commercials solicit donations on late-night TV.
An example of this came Monday, as inadmissible aliens with appointments to enter the U.S. through the unlawful CBP One port interview scheme were disappointed to learn that the program had been cancelled by the new administration. Print and broadcast coverage led with the tears of a Colombian migrant.
Accounts of hardworking illegal immigrants who kept their noses clean until the deportation bill finally came due are ever a favorite of the injustice porn industry, the telltale sign being that the storytellers rarely attempt to verify anything they’re told and accept all statements of fact as axiomatic.
Injustice porn propaganda is likely afoot when human rights and migrant advocates, UN agencies, and the news media put forth visuals and arguments that favor their agendas, without evidence. For instance, another favorite to forestall imminent deportations is to claim extreme widespread violence, hunger, and probable death await deportees in home nations. Many of these kinds of claims fall apart with even the mildest of factchecking and are usually dead wrong. (See House Envy: The Unacknowledged Real Motivation Behind Guatemala’s Mass Migration to the American Border, CIS February 2020; and Video: US Enabling Mass Asylum and Humanitarian Permit Fraud at the Southern Border, May 2023).
Which brings us back to the Border Patrol El Centro Sector’s Kern County “Return to Sender” operation as a foreshadowing indicator that the injustice porn industry is gunning the motor again and has released the emergency brake.
A Harbinger of Propaganda to Come
It’s unclear how the Border Patrol in the Kern County was able to get away with operations while President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were still in office. But once unmarked Border Patrol cars, sweeps of Home Depots and farmlands began, the “injustice porn” machine sparked up for days without end.
At demonstrations and on local news, out came the familiar hyperbolic allegations without evidence as local media gave full unchecked voice to illegal alien protection advocates who claimed the operation was “an abuse of power,” “racial profiling”, and had “terrorized” the whole valley without justification. They vowed investigations and lawsuits to make sure it wouldn’t happen again.
Frightened, terrorized children, the advocates alleged, felt compelled to hide at home rather than go to school. They got school employees like middle school teacher Belen Carrasco to assert that “students are scared”.
One child of about six years old was photographed carrying a pink sign that read in English: “My family picks your fruit!!!” – as though she’d written it herself rather than that someone else posed the cute little girl with the sign to gin up animosity against federal agents doing their normal work.
Another unverified claim that got uncritiqued air time for days on end was that the arrests had created a worker shortage that was damaging the local economy.
Like clockwork when the injustice porn machine churns media stories, out came local elected leaders promising to protect the illegal immigrants at all costs, undermining federal efforts to enforce immigration law.
One incident, when agents flattened the tire of a U.S. citizen to keep him from fleeing in his vehicle and then arrested his passenger on a warrant for human smuggling, especially outraged the activists, some of whom promised lawsuits.
Eventually, the ACLU showed up to investigate how the agents conducted themselves.
“What (agents) have done is terrorize communities and profile people who look brown, who look undocumented and who look like farmworkers”, said ACLU lawyer Rosa Lopez. “There was a lot of terror – or just fear – that trickled into kids not going to school”.
Now that Trump is in office with a strong mandate to return to normal detention and deportation activity, Americans need to recognize injustice porn when it targets them. They must call it out as manipulative, exploitative, and often outright false. They must begin to noisily reject injustice porn, to fact-check it, and to urge elected leaders and one another to blunt its impact.
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Court attempts to halt Trump deportations, El Salvador president says ‘too late’

From The Center Square
By
A class action lawsuit was filed on Saturday against the Trump administration after President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Enemy Aliens Act to target, arrest and remove violent Venezuelan prison gang members, Tren de Aragua (TdA), from the U.S.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation on behalf of five Venezuelans illegally in the country who were detained in Texas and New York. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
On Saturday, nearly 300 violent illegal foreign nationals were removed from the U.S. and arrived in El Salvador with the cooperation of El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele after reaching an agreement with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country,” Bukele said in a post on X. “They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).”
El Salvador also received 23 MS-13 gang members from the U.S. who were wanted by Salvadoran authorities, Bukele said. They include two ringleaders, one of whom “is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.” Those sent to El Salvador by the U.S. will help Bukele’s government “finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators and sponsors.
“As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action. May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States,” he said.
The U.S. government is paying a small fee to detain them, Bukele said, and the prison is also making money because it requires inmates to work. These additional inmates, “combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable,” he said, noting that it costs $200 million a year to maintain.
In response, Rubio thanked Bukele saying, “El Salvador has agreed to hold the violent criminals “in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars. President Nayib Bukele is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he’s also a great friend of the U.S.”
In an emergency hearing held on Saturday, a federal judge ruled that deportations of violent Venezuelans be temporarily halted and those who were illegally in the country and already removed be returned. The ACLU said the order blocked the administration “from deporting anyone under the Alien Enemies Act while the case proceeds. Flights carrying Venezuelan immigrants the DHS attempted to deport have been ordered to turn around and return to the U.S.”
A U.S. federal judge has no jurisdiction over foreign governments.
In response, Bukele posted on X, “Oopsie … Too late,” with a laughing emoji.
Bukele also posted videos and pictures of them arriving in El Salvador in handcuffs. The video shows them being met by El Salvadoran military wearing riot gear and transported in armored vehicles to CECOT. The videos depict El Salvadoran officials lifting up their shirts to show tattoos of gang member affiliation, officials shaving the heads of kneeling inmates and their admittance as CECOT inmates.
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them,… pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpD6
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
Cooperation between the U.S. and El Salvador expanded under Trump and Rubio, representing a reversal of Biden administration policy that used taxpayer money and planes to transport illegal foreign nationals into the U.S.
Trump has been aggressively targeting of TdA after a record more than 1 million Venezuelans illegally entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, including TdA members expanding operations in at least 22 states, The Center Square first reported.
Under the Trump administration, Venezuelan repatriation flights also began, paid for by the Venezuelan government, negotiated by the Trump administration, The Center Square reported.
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“The Invasion of our Country is OVER”: Trump reports lowest illegal crossings in history

MxM News
Quick Hit:
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that illegal immigrant apprehensions at the southern border plummeted to just 8,326 in February—marking a historic low. In a Truth Social post, Trump declared, “The Invasion of our Country is OVER,” crediting his administration’s tough enforcement measures for the drastic reduction.
Key Details:
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The figure represents a staggering 96% drop from December 2023, when illegal crossings under Joe Biden’s administration peaked at 301,981.
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Trump emphasized that those caught illegally entering the U.S. were “quickly ejected from our Nation or, when necessary, prosecuted for crimes against the United States of America.”
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Trump credited executive action, including an emergency border declaration, military deployments, the end of birthright citizenship, and a crackdown on sanctuary cities, for the sharp decline in illegal entries.
Diving Deeper:
President Trump’s first full month back in office saw a seismic shift in border security policy, leading to what he called “the lowest number of illegal border crossings in decades.” In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump highlighted the stark contrast between his administration and Biden’s, stating:
“This means that very few people came – The Invasion of our Country is OVER. In comparison, under Joe Biden, there were 300,000 Illegals crossing in one month, and virtually ALL of them were released into our Country. Thanks to the Trump Administration Policies, the Border is CLOSED to all Illegal Immigrants.”
Upon taking office, Trump signed multiple executive orders that significantly curtailed illegal immigration. These include reinstating policies that allow expedited removals, deploying U.S. troops to the southern border, resuming construction of the border wall, and ending Biden-era programs that facilitated migrant entry through humanitarian parole. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reversed previous Biden restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leading to a sharp uptick in interior enforcement.
According to DHS data obtained by Fox News Digital, ICE interior arrests skyrocketed by 137% in just three weeks, with 11,791 arrests recorded from Jan. 20th to Feb. 8th—compared to 4,969 during the same period in 2024. High-profile raids in sanctuary cities have also yielded thousands of arrests, including gang members and violent offenders.
The economic impact of Trump’s border policies is already being felt. Federal funds that had been allocated to house illegal immigrants in hotels, particularly in cities like New York, are being clawed back. A recent executive order directed all federal agencies to identify and cut off taxpayer-funded programs that benefit illegal immigrants.
Despite congressional gridlock preventing any new border legislation, Trump’s administration has relied solely on executive authority to crack down on illegal immigration. His message to potential border crossers remains clear: “Anyone who tries to illegally enter the U.S.A. will face significant criminal penalties and immediate deportation.”
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