An old CNN report has resurfaced on social media, reigniting
the debate about media coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in
the United States before Donald Trump's arrival at the White House.
Users have unearthed a segment that aired in 2016, during
Barack Obama's presidency, which—they point out—demonstrates a very different
approach to reporting on the operations of this federal agency than the one that
would prevail years later.
The footage is from a May 31, 2016 broadcast, in which
reporter Pamela Brown accompanied a group of ICE agents in Chicago during an
operation to detain undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
In the report, the journalist joined the team early in the
morning to document firsthand how the raids unfolded in one of the so-called
"sanctuary cities."
“Just before dawn in the Windy City, ICE agents deploy
across Chicago to arrest criminals who are undocumented in the United States.
CNN had exclusive access to witness some of those raids,” Brown explained at
the beginning of the segment, titled “A Day With ICE in Chicago’s ‘Sanctuary
City’.”
The resurfacing of the video has generated comments among
users who believe that, at that time, coverage of immigration operations had a
more descriptive and less polarized tone than that seen during and after the
Trump presidency, when immigration and the role of ICE became one of the most
controversial issues in the political debate in the United States.
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