By now, you’ve likely heard the story of Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old Minnesota child who was sent with his illegal alien father to an immigration detention center after his dad was detained by ICE, only to be returned a week later after an outcry from hysterical liberals who won't give a second thought to a child killed on a highway by an illegal alien driver, but who will happily lose anything passing for common sense over a family having to answer for breaking a just law. Little Liam, standing in the Minnesota snow in his fuzzy blue hat and Spider-Man backpack, was immediately seized upon by leftists and the elitist media as the cherub-faced poster child for the Trump administration’s Gestapo-esque cruelty. After all, who but a Nazi could be so heartless as to arrest a kindergartener? Never mind that Liam Conejo Ramos was never “arrested.” Never mind that his father was an illegally present alien from Ecuador who had crossed the border unlawfully and who had no legal claim to be in the United States. Never mind that Adrian Conejo Arias had abandoned his son in a snowbank and fled from immigration officials when they showed up to his door to arrest him for immigration violations, or the fact that Liam’s own mother refused to take custody of her son despite repeated attempts by ICE to persuade her to do so. And never mind that Arias had requested that his son remain with him, even if it meant the pair would be detained together at a state-of-the-art detention facility in Texas - complete with playrooms and a rec center - while they awaited a chartered jet back to their home country. That single photo of a little chubby-cheeked boy in a fuzzy blue hat is all that mattered to opportunistic leftists - the same leftists who never batted any eye at the children being dumped over the border wall by human smugglers, the migrant toddlers left to die in the sweltering Texas desert, or the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children who were “lost” by the Biden administration, many of them later found in abusive homes, or being exploited into forced labor. As the elitist media continues to wage their propaganda war, the truth gets forcibly suffocated beneath the photos of little boys in fuzzy blue hats, the deceptively edited videos of “children” being “disappeared,” and the carefully-worded headlines decrying ICE’s cruelty toward desperate migrant families. But beneath the dramatic sobbing and media hand-wringing, the truth remains the truth. And the American people deserve to know it. While the examples abound, here are a few of the most truly egregious examples of leftwing media lies, and what you need to know to keep from falling for them.   1. What the media told you: ICE ripped a crying child from her father’s arms as he was having a seizure A video from November that immediately sent leftist operatives into apoplexy appeared to show a man seizing while sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle, as agents attempt to grab a screaming child from his arms. One local reporter woefully described how “some in the crowd [we]re crying seeing toddler caught in the middle of an ICE apprehension.” What really happened: Juliana Ojeda Montoya was an illegal alien from Ecuador who was wanted by ICE after being arrested in August of 2025 for stabbing a coworker repeatedly with a pair of scissors and assaulting them with a garbage can. After being apprehended by ICE during a traffic stop, Montoya and her husband dragged their toddler daughter to the front seat, locked arms, and refused to let go of the child or step out of the vehicle. Montoya’s husband then began having a “seizure” - an episode that magically disappeared after ICE managed to secure his child and pull him out of the car. He showed no further symptoms, refused medical treatment at the scene, and was released with the child while Montoya was detained. 2. What the media told you: ICE arrested a US citizen nurse for no reason. Another viral video began making the rounds on social media showing a woman in scrubs screaming that she is a U.S. citizen while being detained by ICE agents on the side of the road. What actually happened: According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents were searching for the woman’s boyfriend, who is an illegal alien, and pulled this woman over because she was driving a vehicle registered in his name. She refused to provide her identification for officers, leading them to follow standard procedure and remove her from the vehicle and place her in a patrol car while they verified her identity. After they confirmed who she was, they immediately released her. All of which could have been avoided had she simply complied with a simple, basic order and shown them her driver’s license.   3. What the media told you: “A teacher at a Chicago day care center was violently dragged out and then arrested by federal immigration officers.” A viral video began circulating in early January showing ICE agents detaining a woman outside a daycare center in Chicago. What really happened: ICE agents instigated a traffic stop to detain an illegal alien woman named Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, who crossed into the United States illegally in 2023. She was wanted for facilitating human smuggling after reportedly paying human traffickers to illegally smuggle her teenage sons into the U.S. When ICE agents attempted to apprehend her, she sped into a parking lot and fled on foot into the daycare center, where she was employed. Agents caught up to her in the vestibule and had to forcibly drag her out of the facility after she resisted arrest. 4. What the media told you: ICE teargassed an infant whose parents were stuck driving through a protest. Minnesota couple Shawn and Destiny Jackson told local news outlets that they and their six children were driving home from their son’s basketball game when their vehicle got stuck on a street clogged up with anti-ICE protesters. The couple said ICE officers began throwing flash bangs, which they say exploded beneath their car and set off the airbags, and claimed agents threw tear gas near the vehicle, which came in through the air vents and began choking their six-month-old son. The couple told reporters their son "nearly died," and was taken to a nearby hospital in respiratory distress. What really happened: Contrary to the couple’s sob story, live-streamed video from the protest shows both Shawn and Destiny Jackson in the street with the mob, talking and laughing with protesters roughly 45 minutes before operators received the 911 call reporting an infant who had inhaled tear gas. The video does not show any children with the couple, leading many to question whether they had left their children - including their infant son - in the vehicle while they attended the protest, and leaving ICE officers with no way of knowing that there were any children nearby when they began implementing crowd dispersal measures as the mob became increasingly violent. Even still, the Jacksons managed to garner national sympathy and raise nearly $200,000 through a self-established GoFundMe campaign toward the cost of a new vehicle. 5. What the media told you: ICE assaulted a teenage Target employee for being brown. True to form, the elitist media seized upon another cell phone video back in January claiming to show ICE agents hauling a teenage Target employee, who was a U.S. citizen, out of the store where he worked, a scene the left immediately used to accuse ICE of profiling brown people and assuming their immigration status. What really happened: The full video from the incident shows the teenage employee hurling profanity at an ICE agent who is attempting to walk into the store. The video then appears to show the employee shoving or swinging at the agent inside the vestibule, prompting the officer to immediately detain the young man. The employee violently resisted arrest, leading multiple other agents to intervene. 6. What the media told you: ICE murdered an LA man for being black. News reports were also quick to pick up on the story of Keith Porter, a black Los Angeles man who was shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve. What really happened: By his own family’s admission, Porter was outside on New Year's Eve firing his AR-style rifle into the air in celebration of the New Year, which is in and of itself a felony and a reckless choice that can easily leave someone dead. An off-duty ICE agent who happened to live in the same apartment complex heard the shots, immediately assumed that it could be an active shooter situation, grabbed his sidearm, and went outside to investigate. The agent told investigators that he confronted Porter, identified himself as law enforcement, and asked him to drop the rifle. He claims Porter refused to drop the weapon and fired at him several times, prompting the officer to fire back in self-defense. The incident, which is still under investigation, was unrelated to ICE or any immigration operations, and never would have occurred had Porter not been firing live rounds into the air in the first place. 7. ICE ripped a newborn baby away from a Tennessee mom. Hand-wringing headlines began popping up on Facebook in December accusing ICE of ripping a baby away from its mother - identified merely as a “Midstate mom” - before cruelly detaining her merely for being a migrant. What really happened: Esther Lopez Sanchez, an illegal alien, was arrested on August 15, 2024 alongside her partner, Roberto Nunez Gomez - also an illegal alien and a convicted felon - on drug and firearm charges. Sanchez, who was pregnant when she was arrested, went into labor at the Rutherford County Jail and was immediately transported to a U.S. hospital, where she gave birth. As is standard procedure both for criminal aliens and U.S. citizens who are imprisoned, Sanchez’s baby was placed in foster care while Sanchez was detained. She was eventually transported to an immigration detention facility in Louisiana where she was processed for immigration violations and its awaiting deportation. The Tennessee Department of Child Services said they are unable to place the child - who is considered a U.S. citizen - with a family member because all identified relatives are also illegal aliens who could be subject to deportation. 8 . ICE kidnapped a 15-year-old employee from a grocery store. A viral video was circulated thousands of times and racked up millions of views after claiming to show ICE arresting a teenage employee at a grocery store in Charlotte, North Carolina, which leftists used to accuse ICE of “disappearing” children on the streets. What really happened: While the Charlotte Observer first reported that the employee was only 15 years old, they later updated their reporting to reflect that they’d gotten that information from the grocery store owner, who had guessed the employee’s age as being “15 or 16.” However, employment records showed the man was actually in his 20s. He was apprehended without incident in the store, but tried to break free from officers in the parking lot, which is why he ended up being zip-tied.