Media Lies About ICE: Shot for No Reason, Suicide in Custody, and Married to a Soldier
The media keeps misrepresenting stories by focusing on half-truths and omitting crucial details of ICE cases with the intent of evoking emotions and hatred toward law enforcement. These stories often include emotional and irrelevant framing, such as claims that someone was on his way to see his premature baby, his wife was having chemo, someone close to him had a heart attack for unrelated reasons, or he was on his way to donate a kidney when he was arrested for no reason or for being brown.
They say he was in the process of getting his paperwork done, he was hardworking, she just wanted a better life, or they were confused because they spoke no English. But when you investigate the cases, you find that ICE was right, the people were in the country illegally, and here is what actually happened.
Three cases this week follow the same pattern.
The first narrative is of an innocent man shot by ICE for no reason. The facts are that an illegal alien, a gang member wanted for murder, was shot while using his vehicle as a weapon against ICE agents.
ICE identified the target as Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an illegal alien and 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder. He was flagged by the National Targeting Center.
The Department of Justice has described the 18th Street Gang, a designated transnational terrorist organization, as a “well-known and established international criminal organization and violent street gang” with more than 100,000 members in the United States.
ICE agents conducted a targeted vehicle stop near Interstate 5 in Patterson, about 90 miles south of Sacramento. As agents approached the car, Mendoza Hernandez used his vehicle in an attempt to run over an agent. Officers fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public.
Dashcam footage corroborates the broad outline of the official account. The video shows the hatchback reversing into a truck behind it, with the passenger-side door open and heavily damaged in the collision. Seconds later, the vehicle moves forward and turns toward the road as officers draw their weapons.
Mendoza Hernandez was hospitalized in critical condition.
The next story is that ICE locked up a teenager, a child, for no reason and murdered him. Of course, as with many of these angry posts, they never mention that he was in the country illegally, that he had multiple charges against him, including a felony, or that he committed suicide.
The fact is that 19-year-old Royer Perez Jimenez came to the United States unlawfully four years ago. His family said the reason was that he wanted a job.
Perez initially entered the United States on February 19, 2022. He was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol and granted a voluntary return to Mexico the same day. On an unknown date, he illegally reentered the United States, which is a federal felony.
He was arrested in January for resisting arrest and providing a false ID to police. He fled from officers, gave multiple false names, and admitted to being in the country illegally.
ICE placed an immigration detainer on him on January 22. He was transferred into ICE custody on February 21 and subsequently moved to the Glades County Detention Center on February 26. At intake, he was evaluated by medical staff, denied any behavioral health issues or concerns, and answered “no” to all suicide screening questions.
At approximately 2:34 a.m. on March 16, a Glades County detention officer found Perez unconscious and unresponsive. Staff immediately started CPR. Moore Haven Fire Rescue EMS arrived at approximately 2:42 a.m. and initiated life-sustaining interventions. He was pronounced deceased at 2:51 a.m. ICE listed the cause as a presumed suicide.
The final case is one liberals can only support by engaging in cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, they hate patriots and the military, but in this case, they ask, “How can we treat our veterans like this?”
Just days after marrying a U.S. Army staff sergeant, Annie Ramos wound up in ICE custody awaiting possible deportation. This is where more cognitive dissonance comes in. Although liberals hate Christianity, the reports all stress the fact that Ramos is a Sunday school teacher. They also make sure to tell readers that she just finished her degree, which is irrelevant to being in the country illegally.
Born in Honduras and brought to the United States as a toddler, she was in the country illegally. A deportation order was issued in absentia in 2005 after her family missed an immigration court hearing.
The media describe Ramos as “DACA-eligible,” but she has never held DACA. She applied, but per a court injunction, USCIS is prohibited from granting initial DACA requests, leaving her with only a pending application that cannot be processed. When outlets call her “eligible,” they are expressing an opinion about what the policy should allow, not describing her actual legal status. In legal terms, she is an illegal alien with a final removal order issued in 2005, no valid immigration status, and no DACA protection.
On April 2, 2026, Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank brought Ramos to Fort Polk to register her as a military spouse and begin processing her military ID and green card application. ICE agents detained her within hours of their arrival.
The media have focused heavily on the phrase “registration as a military spouse” as if this has bearing on the case. That registration would have given her a military dependent ID, allowing her to access subsidized groceries and various on-base amenities, but it has nothing to do with immigration status. The green card application was a separate matter her attorney had prepared, and even that could not proceed without first vacating the 2005 removal order.
Ramos remained in custody until April 8, 2026, when authorities released her on an order of supervision with a GPS monitor while removal proceedings continue.
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