For several decades in American politics, whichever side trotted out the most videos of sad women usually won the election.
ABC News knows it all too well.
On a human level, I understand the pain that this situation would cause this young wife. If I were her friend or neighbor, I'd be doing everything I could to help her.
But Americans have learned, thankfully, that the media's reporting is most often an ideological argument that hijacks your God-given empathy in order to convince you to go along with leftwing ideas and policies.
So let's break this case down to see what meat ABC News has behind that loaded headline/tweet.
The current leftwing attack on the Trump Administration is over the deportation of 238 members of a violent Venezuelan gang that has been terrorizing American cities from coast-to-coast over the last few years.
We have covered Tren de Aragua's violence here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, not to mention other stories involving Venezuelan criminals here and here.
The communist Venezuelan government is strained for resources since aforementioned communism has plunged the nation into abject poverty over the last two decades.
To ease the burden of their prisons, they released many of their violent offenders knowing full well that most of them would head northward with the migrant caravans heading to America's open borders.
Trump deported 238 suspected violent Tren de Aragua members before a leftwing activist judge could prevent him from doing so.
To understand just how far-left Judge James Boasberg is, consider:
This is the context behind this ABC News story. They can't attack Trump for deporting violent alien gangsters that have been murdering, raping, and terrorizing Americans for years under Joe Biden, so they go with the sad woman approach.
Again, terrible situation. Let's not point fingers at her. Let's just focus on the intent of this article from ABC News.
Ivannoa Sanchez says her husband disappeared after a "routine ICE appointment." ABC then quotes another man, Sebastian Garcia Casique, who says his brother disappeared "after a routine check-in" with ICE.
We'll come back to that "routine" element in a moment, but I want you to look at how ABC is couching its own argument with these words:
In Casique's case, the claim is a bit stronger. He "said that he and his family recognized his brother in a photo posted on social media by the White House" (emphasis mine).
None of this proves that these two men were arrested and deported to El Salvador, but let's accept it as true. The emotional argument that ABC News is making is based upon that having happened, so let's say they are currently sitting in jail.
Both of the men are in the United States illegally. They are not U.S. citizens.
Both of the men are Venezuelan.
Both of the men had tattoos. Tren de Aragua members have tattoos to communicate their status and rank within the gang.
Both Sanchez and Casique claim that their relatives are innocent, and ABC News made sure to tell the readers that the men don't have criminal records:
"Beyond crossing the U.S. border"
This brings us back to the question of routine check-ins with ICE.
The million-dollar question:
Were these men in America illegally?
(The answer is yes.)
There's your criminal record, ABC!
If you had illegally entered China and the Chinese government deported you, no one would bat an eye. The same is true in nearly every country on the planet ... except a few select Western nations where we are told they must have open borders in the name of compassion. You are then silenced if you point out that open borders are not compassionate for the citizens of the host nation.
As much as you can feel for a person who wants a better life, it is also morally and criminally wrong to break the law to achieve that life (unless you think "Breaking Bad" was a "how-to" guide).
Now to the two-million-dollar question:
Does ABC News have proof that these men were not associated with Tren de Aragua?
If so, they don't provide it!
Could it be that the FBI and Homeland Security have a better idea of which illegal Venezeulans with tattoos should be deported?
The media relies on toxic empathy to control the masses. The story here isn't national news. If the Trump admin did deport a few men not associated with Tren de Aragua, it would be morally right to move them out of the prison where all the hardcore gangbangers are, but it doesn't need a major outlet to cover the scoop.
Major outlets should be holding the Trump admin accountable. But that's not what ABC News is doing.
ABC News is showing the wedding pic of a sad illegal alien that relies on "he said, she said" argument and excludes crucial information in an effort to damage a political foe.
To be fair to ABC News, for decades, that tactic has worked.
Example A:
THAT is toxic empathy: To say you are un-Christlike if you do not immediately jump onboard leftwing immigration policies because of a sad, emotionally-framed story.
Fortunately, we're done with that.
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