On the First of July, I called it.
The “it?” The supposed “kidnapping” by ICE of a woman who claimed to be held hostage at an undisclosed location–a warehouse–near the Mexican border.
Breathless stories were broadcast by the media, making outrageous claims about how ICE was kidnapping people off the streets and hiding them in warehouses under intolerable conditions. The story was as insane as the Jussie Smollett hoax, and the media was just as credulous.
Loved ones and attorneys are speaking out about a South L.A. mother and community leader who they say was taken last week by possible federal agents, brought down to the U.S. border and is now being held in a warehouse until she agrees to self-deport.
https://t.co/3SzKG7pJMu— KTLA (@KTLA) June 30, 2025
I read the stories and watched the heart-wrenching videos of her family and concluded that ICE’s denials were obviously true. In the annals of things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most.
Well, guess what? I was right.
Remember that woman who Democrats and the media claimed was kidnapped from a parking lot by ICE, shoved into an unmarked car, held in a building, starved, to force her to self-deport???
Turns out she staged the entire “kidnapping”
She’s now facing criminal charges for… pic.twitter.com/QG7NrKWkWA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2025
If there is one thing you can be sure of, any story that fits so neatly into the preferred media narrative that it is on the nose, that story is almost certainly false. The odds are not 100%, but they are 99.9% that whatever you are being fed is as real as a plastic banana.
This sort of thing happens all the time. Nicholas Sandmann, of the “Covington kids,” was smeared mercilessly by the media when he was accused of confronting a “Native American Elder”–it is always somebody who is “oppressed”–and smirking at him nastily because he was a smug MAGA supporter.
CLOSED BORDER: Illegal alien was arrested for staging a fake “kidnapping”, where bounty hunters took her at gunpoint and tried forcing her to self-deport at a fast-food restaurant, to scam people and “smear federal law enforcement.” https://t.co/VxctiNkAXE pic.twitter.com/rtO5jo4dWy
— @amuse (@amuse) July 18, 2025
It turns out that it was he and the Covington kids who were being harassed.
Nooses, roaming bands of white supremacists, Nazis everywhere…it’s all part of a hoax industrial complex to feed the demand for racism that far exceeds the supply. It’s one hoax after another.
Some of this is necessary to feed The Narrative, and some is there to cover for the fact that the leftist brownshirts are committing violence left and right against ordinary people. They are “protesting” nonexistent horrors perpetrated by hateful white Republicans.
Karen Bass Claimed ICE Kidnapped a Los Angeles Mother on Her Way to Work. Prosecutors Say It Was a Hoax. https://t.co/AhhAjLclV7
— Janie Johnson – America is Exceptional (@jjauthor) July 18, 2025
Did anybody in the media actually believe Jussie Smollett? I doubt it. Did they believe this woman? Almost certainly not. But they were useful propaganda tools, and that was enough. Credulous viewers who desperately want to believe The Narrative™ or have simply been taken in by the propagandists swallow it whole.
That’s a diminishing number of people, of course, which is why the censorship complex blossomed under Biden and is still going strong in Europe. In the UK, you can get thrown in jail for saying the wrong thing, and in Germany, they raid people’s homes to shut them up.
“Misinformation,” almost always, simply means “information that undermines The Narrative™.”
It’s certainly true that bad things happen, and of course, when they are real, they should be reported. But the media picks and chooses what they report, and are indifferent to the truth of things that sound good to them.
Not everything is a hoax. But a lot of them sure are.
