Wednesday’s Morning Joe brought more of that trademark misinformation MS NOW failed to shake during its rebrand. Co-host Joe Scarborough repeated his mischaracterization of the Catholic on immigration and even labeled himself as a “conservative” on border policy. As if it were an indictment on U.S. immigration policy, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius pitied a bunch of “suffering” Salvadoran prisoners who appeared in a video posted by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: "I hate to say it, but that's a photograph that 30, 40, 50 years from now, people will look at and they'll be shocked. They will look at that and they'll wonder, ‘Who were these people? How could they have done that?’ […]  that's an image, sadly, that will stand for this period that we're living in now.” If you know anything about El Salvador’s strict law enforcement under President Nayib Bukele, you’ll know those incarcerated certainly deserve the treatment they’ve received. For Ignatius to feel sympathy for the worst of the worst would be absurd.   Scarborough concurred with Ignatius’ “brilliant” observation and, once again, invoked Catholic reproach for treatment of immigrants without mentioning their support for the law: And if you wonder why Pope Leo, and if you wonder why the archbishops of the Catholic Church, and you wonder why priests are reading Pope Leo's messages to congregants across America talking about the moral crisis going on right now with harsh immigration policies. Nearly a week prior, Scarborough and his Morning Joe cohort selectively promoted portions of Catholic officials’ positions on U.S. immigration enforcement while leaving out statements that affirmed the need for border security. Scarborough tried cover-up the omission by qualifying his remark: We're not talking about upholding the law. As I've said for 32 years in public service, I think it's a problem when you come to America and the first thing that you do is an illegal action. So, I'm pretty conservative on this stuff, more conservative than a lot of my Republicans I served with in Congress on it. Really? Scarborough’s “pretty conservative” on the border? In 2018, he compared the separation of families to Nazi procedure. In April of 2022, he claimed Trump would treat migrants like a “thug” if Biden wasn’t more humanitarian. In September of 2022, he accused Republican politicians of “political human trafficking.” In November of 2023, he lamented small businesses not having enough immigrant labor. And back in July, Scarborough actually defended the intentions of sanctuary city advocates. Scarborough may not be a total liberal nut on border security, but he’s far from being the conservative he claims to have been. He ended by exaggerating the extent of ICE’s immigration enforcement operations: “And the inhumanity, the un-Christ-like behavior of how these mothers and children and grandparents are being dragged out of school lines, are being dragged out of preschools, are being treated in the worst, most despicable ways.” Pretty sure that just happened once, which, shockingly, Scarborough also misreported. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read: MS NOW’s Morning Joe November 26, 2025 6:19:06 a.m. EST DAVID IGNATIUS: Just to say one last thing, that picture that you showed earlier of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, in the, kind of, glamorous outfit standing in front of a prison with these half-naked men suffering. I hate to say it, but that's a photograph that 30, 40, 50 years from now, people will look at — JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. IGNATIUS: — and they'll be shocked. They will look at that and they'll wonder, “Who were these people? How could they have done that?” And I think that's just something we should all — think that's an image, sadly, that will stand for this period that we're living in now. SCARBOROUGH: There's no doubt, David, it's so brilliantly said. 50 years from now, people will be looking at this time period and they will be looking at that video image. And if you wonder why Pope Leo, and if you wonder why the archbishops of the Catholic Church, and you wonder why priests are reading Pope Leo's messages to congregants across America talking about the moral crisis going on right now with harsh immigration policies. We're not talking about upholding the law. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Right. SCARBOROUGH: As I've said for 32 years in public service, I think it's a problem when you come to America and the first thing that you do is an illegal action. So, I'm pretty conservative on this stuff, more conservative than a lot of my Republicans I served with in Congress on it. That said, you can do two things at once. And the inhumanity, the un-Christ-like behavior of how these mothers and children and grandparents are being dragged out of school lines, are being dragged out of preschools, are being treated in the worst, most despicable ways. That will be something, unfortunately, regardless of whether you're like me and you want a strong border, or whether you're more moderate on the issue, it's still — it's going to be — BRZEZINSKI: Stain on our history. SCARBOROUGH: — real blight on this time. And that's why I'm so grateful for Pope Leo and the Catholic Church stepping forward the way it have.

After a disgraceful front-page smear against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this month, (Actual headline: “Ron DeSantis Is a Veteran. So Are 7 Inmates He's Sending to Execution”) the Orlando Sentinel has continued to use that valuable space to place ridiculous stories involving ICE and immigration, running three sob stories on its front page over a span of eight days. The Orlando Sentinel’s November 19 front-page headline, “Sanford grandfather to remain in ICE custody -- Retired optician faces deportation for criminal past.”  Sounds awful, doesn’t it? But there’s a little more to the story (by Jeffrey Schweers, who regularly files anti-DeSantis hit jobs for the paper) as DeSantis himself, with an assist from Executive Office communications staffer Christina Pushaw pointed out on X: “Good grief the legacy media is shilling for a convicted rapist. That is your sob story?” Bojerski, born to Polish parents in a displacement camp in war-torn Germany in 1946, came to the U.S. with his family in 1952 where they were granted lawful permanent residency. Not until paragraph seven do we learn this detail: He was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Oct. 30 and sent to Alligator Alcatraz, based on a deportation order issued over 50 years ago that U.S. immigration authorities failed to act on. The order was issued after Bojerski’s conviction for larceny and accepting stolen goods in the 1960s. Several years after the deportation order, he was convicted of rape, in 1972. That part of the story is only told in the last two paragraphs of the 18-paragraph story, paired with an excuse from Bojerski, who “didn’t take a plea deal because he believed he did nothing wrong, [his wife] said.” Three days before, the Sentinel squeezed in anti-ICE jab in a wholly unrelated Sunday front-page story about teenagers killed in a car crash: “Apopka grieves Apopka Community, already roiled by ICE raids, mourns teens killed in crash.” Reporter Natalia Jaramillo interspersed details about the tragedy with immigration raids as if they were somehow connected. ….a tragic crash took his life and the lives of Enrique Rodriguez Sabas, 17, and Leyner Velasquez, 13, upending a tight-knit immigrant community already enduring immigration raids that are splitting up families…. ….Apopka, home to one of the state’s largest communities of farmworkers, has been a major target of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration began early this year, she said, leading families there to cement a stronger bond than before. “The sense of unity and empathy has grown more and more because they’re attacking us a thousand different ways, and now with these losses it has more impact,” Ramirez said. The family of Leyner Velasquez, the youngest victim, was already reeling from a traffic stop in January that led to his father’s arrest and a three-month detention by ICE. Monday’s front page included a story syndicated from the New York Times, “Under Trump, Immigrants Are More Fearful but Determined to Stay, Poll Finds.” The poll mixes illegal immigrants with those here legally, sometimes breaking those numbers out but sometimes not, which renders the results confusing. As the Trump administration seeks to remake the immigration system and deports tens of thousands of people, many immigrants are more scared about living in the United States, and yet their resolve to remain here is largely unchanged. A new national survey of immigrants in the country — both documented and in the country illegally, and varying widely in how and when they arrived — found that about half of all immigrants say they feel less safe since President Donald Trump took office. The survey was done by The New York Times and KFF, a nonprofit that conducts polling and research about health policy. The Sentinel’s front-page choices on the death penalty and illegal immigration prove their knee-jerk resistance to conservatives and conservative policies, both state and local.

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