ICE has been a favorite target of the media ever since President Donald Trump began putting it into action during his second term as president. On Friday, CNN continued their unfair coverage of the federal agency on News Central, where co-host Kate Bolduan and correspondent Priscilla Alvarez clutched their pearls about an ICE arrest on school grounds in Baltimore, treating school grounds a home base in a game of tag. But they downplayed how the illegals fled there, assaulting an officer and dragging him along. Leading into the segment, Bolduan framed the situation as heartless ICE agents traumatizing kids: This morning, there is backlash growing after immigration agents in Baltimore detained two people on school grounds as kids were walking in for the school day. Agents could be seen pulling a man and a woman from their SUV, and children were walking just feet away. A state senator says there also were two children inside the SUV that they were pulling them out of, and say that teachers pulled those children from the car as this was happening.   CNN crying about ICE detaining illegal migrants at a school, but skim over the assaulting of an officer and the violent resisting of arrest! After that, its all about "the circumstances" that led them there. pic.twitter.com/XgyjBZn8GY — James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) June 12, 2026   Of course, the situation looks bad when CNN covers it. They would love it if the story was just the arrest and nothing more! Unfortunately for them, the context of the situation reveals essential details about the arrest, denying them a perfect sob story to demonize the agency. As Alvarez portrayed them: This pursuit of this man, who was accompanied by his family, led ICE to school grounds where it was, as you see there in the video, they executed that arrest of him and the woman in the vehicle. ICE didn’t lurk at the school to catch these parents - they led ICE to the school themselves! However, having given token acknowledgement to the actual facts of the situation, CNN proceeds to spend the rest of the segment playing up ICE’s presence at the school, barely even acknowledging how they actually got there (Click “expand”): ALVAREZ: Now, again, this happened at a moment where there were children around, there were multiple witnesses, and it happened, again, on school grounds, which immediately has received pushback.  We got a quote from the governor, Wes Moore, where he said this, quote, "Schools are places where children should feel safe, where parents should be able to drop off their kids without fear, and where educators should be able to focus on teaching, not where federal agents carry out immigration enforcement actions in front of children." Now I have been told that there were calls between ICE and school and state officials where ICE was, quote, “apologetic,” according to a source familiar with the incident and noted the circumstances that ultimately led them to be on school grounds where they conducted these arrests.   They spend the rest of the segment pearl-clutching about the fact that the detention occurred in front of kids at a school... but it was the illegals that fled there trying to escape the officers! pic.twitter.com/3n97lU9SOK — James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) June 12, 2026   Barely any mention of the migrants refusing police demands and violently resisting arrest. The entire piece after that one sentence is a whole bunch of fearmongering and scare tactics, making ICE seem like the baddies. While reading the Homeland Security statement on the incident, Alvarez skipped over key parts, such as how one of the illegals had previously fled ICE and damaged a vehicle in the process, and the other punched an officer. This shouldn’t come as a shock, however. CNN has been unfair to ICE many times in the past, and they will take anything they can get to tarnish the federal agency’s reputation, regardless of whether or not they are actually at fault. That’s just how the media works, full of partisan messaging and lacking a drop of fair coverage. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN News Central June 12, 2026 08:15:15 Eastern KATE BOLDUAN: This morning, there is backlash growing after immigration agents in Baltimore detained two people on school grounds as kids were walking in for the school day. Agents could be seen pulling a man and a woman from their SUV, and children were walking just feet away. A state senator says there also were two children inside the SUV that they were pulling them out of, and say that teachers pulled those children from the car as this was happening. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez joins us right now. She's got more details coming in about this. The video is quite something. Priscilla, what are you learning about this? PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: Well, Kate, these arrests immediately drew concern from educators that were on the scene as well as state officials because these were arrests that not only happened on school grounds but also happened as preparations were underway for pre-k and kindergarten ceremonies. So you see there, there were children who were passing by, because this was also drop-off time according to the school, who were witnessing this arrest happen.  Now let me tell you what happened that led to this incident according to the Department of Homeland Security. So this was an individual, the man, Jesus Acevedo-Sanchez, who was targeted by ICE. They had approached him. He refused lawful commands according to DHS, and I'm quoting here, “violently resisted arrest and used his vehicle to evade law enforcement, dragging an ICE officer in the process.” This pursuit of this man, who was accompanied by his family, led ICE to school grounds where it was, as you see there in the video, they executed that arrest of him and the woman in the vehicle. We understand them to be parents. They were with their two children who were in the backseat. Educators say that they pulled the children out of the vehicle and brought them into the school. We have since learned from the Department of Homeland Security that the parents were offered the opportunity to contact a relative, and now those children are in the custody of their aunt. The two parents are also now facing federal charges according to the Department of Homeland Security for assaulting officers. Now, again, this happened at a moment where there were children around, there were multiple witnesses, and it happened, again, on school grounds, which immediately has received pushback. We got a quote from the governor, Wes Moore, where he said this, quote, "Schools are places where children should feel safe, where parents should be able to drop off their kids without fear, and where educators should be able to focus on teaching, not where federal agents carry out immigration enforcement actions in front of children." Now I have been told that there were calls between ICE and school and state officials where ICE was, quote, “apologetic,” according to a source familiar with the incident and noted the circumstances that ultimately led them to be on school grounds where they conducted these arrests.  We've similarly got a statement from DHS on this, where they said, quote, "ICE does not target schools, but we will not allow criminals to hide in our nation's schools and put the safety of our children at risk." And there again, describing what led them to that arrest in their pursuit of this undocumented immigrant. So again, we will continue to follow the story as well as where these children are now. We know they're with their aunt, but any more that we can learn, we'll share with you as soon as we know it.   BOLDUAN: Absolutely. Priscilla, thank you so much for your reporting, for the context around all of it. I appreciate it.