The liberal brains at Time magazine really had to think hard to come up with a way to make Iranians look good and the Republicans look bad. So the top story of their Time.com newsletter today was: "The Iranians Stuck Between ICE Detention and Deportation to War-Torn Homeland." Naturally, it's a gay couple stuck in Trump's cruel web. Reporter Philip Wang began:  When Ali and Adel showed up at the southern border in El Paso, Texas in 2025 after traveling thousands of miles from Iran, they believed that America was a place of freedom and opportunity. Instead, the Iranian gay couple found themselves in separate ICE detention facilities hundreds of miles apart, facing the threat of deportation back to Iran. TIME is using pseudonyms to protect their safety. They always love using pseudonyms for any Trump "victims" because it makes them sound like they're in great danger. Liberal outlets love to use this for pro-Hamas protesters and ICE-busting radicals, too.  The couple, one in his late 30s and the other in his early 40s, fled Iran for Turkey in 2021 after being arrested by Iran’s morality police who opened a criminal investigation into their relationship—same-sex activity is punishable by death in Iran. Soon after, fearing for their safety, they left Turkey for Mexico and eventually arrived in the U.S. The next obvious step in this publicity is to run all the defense lawyer's talking points:  Wolf said Adel’s condition is particularly alarming. He suffered severe organ damage after the couple was attacked in Mexico en route to the U.S., and has since lost a significant amount of weight and experienced fainting episodes while in detention. “He's incredibly frail, to the point where he could no longer ambulate. He couldn't walk because of the pain,” Wolf said. “He had to have other detainees pick him up and carry him to the bathroom and to the shower, which was incredibly distressing.” Then comes the data points of an anti-Trump project from professors at UCLA and UC-Berkeley:  Ali and Adel are among hundreds of Iranians facing an impossible choice: remaining in a U.S. immigration system increasingly defined by mass deportation, or returning to an authoritarian regime that represses its citizens. According to data from the Deportation Data Project, ICE arrested at least 432 Iranians in 2025, more than half of whom had neither been convicted of a crime nor were facing pending criminal charges at the time of their arrest. If either of these poor unfortunate souls had any criminal record, you wouldn't know, since they're kept pseudonymous.  The second item in this "news" letter also seemed more like a press release: "Here’s Which Cities Are Likely to Host the Biggest No Kings Protests." Chantelle Lee touted the Saturday protests against evil Trump: "This Saturday could be the largest day of domestic political protest in U.S. history, according to event organizers." Left-wing protests are often presented in the rosy view of "event organizers."