Obama-Era CNN Segment Shows Different ICE Coverage Compared to Trump Years

When ICE agents came up to a man at work, he tried to run away, but they let him go when they realized he wasn’t a target. Brown then took viewers inside an ICE processing center and talked to a man who was going to be deported.

2 of them were released because they didn’t have criminal records.”

X account @mazemoore dug up and shared the video, noting that CNN didn’t appear critical of ICE at the time.

Since 2016, CNN has changed owners and managers many times. However, conservatives say that the ten-year-old segment shows how media outlets covered ICE more favorably under Obama than under Trump, when ICE has mostly been criticized for how it enforces immigration laws.