Seattle’s progressive media has a troubling habit of giving megaphones to radical activist groups without telling the public just how extreme they really are. One of the worst offenders is KING 5, which recently treated the fringe, open-borders group La Resistencia as a legitimate stakeholder in the immigration debate, when in reality, the group wants to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), shut down all detention facilities, and end deportations altogether. Who cares what they have to say about deportations in the Puget Sound region?
In a July 10 report, KING 5 effectively rewrote La Resistencia’s press release. The article uncritically platformed their claims, offered no meaningful pushback, and gave zero context to who this group actually is. It reads like a PR piece from an activist newsletter — not a serious news outlet.
But La Resistencia isn’t just some concerned grassroots immigrant group. This is a radical, extremist organization with a mission that goes far beyond helping detainees. By their own admission, they are working to “shut down the NWDC [Northwest Detention Center], and to end all detentions and deportations in Washington State.”
La Resistencia is a radical group and should be treated as such
La Resistencia doesn’t want a more humane immigration system. They want no immigration enforcement at all. And they actively fight to release all illegal immigrants from detention centers, no matter the crime they’ve committed.
“We oppose any kind of detention, physical or virtual… we can’t rely on the law alone to be able to win. But we continue using all tools available to pressure all elected officials at all levels to be accountable and fight to end the terror of immigration enforcement, detention, and deportation,” the group says online.
These aren’t reasonable policy goals. They’re anarchistic, open borders fever dreams.
Yet Seattle media — especially outlets like KING 5 — continues to launder the group’s reputation by omitting their radicalism entirely. In the article, KING 5 didn’t explain that La Resistencia’s goal is to completely eliminate detention and deportation — not to reform it. Instead, the station framed the group as compassionate advocates helping poor immigrants caught in a cruel system.
Counterpoint? What counterpoint!?
The story quoted a La Resistencia report ludicrously asserting that the Trump deportation plan is “the largest mass transport program of people in chains since the end of the Slave Trade.” The deportees are shackled, which is common practice. To KING 5, this isn’t hyperbole, but a valid point they needed to print. Let that sink in.
And where’s the counterpoint? Where’s the acknowledgement that La Resistencia opposes all deportations, even of violent criminals or those who skipped court dates? Where’s the mention that their goal isn’t just humanitarian aid — it’s the total dismantling of border enforcement?
It’s intentional journalistic malpractice because the goal is activism.
In the rush to virtue signal, progressive outlets are giving cover to radical activists who want to dismantle the very idea of national sovereignty. There’s a reason La Resistencia began under the national #Not1More campaign — because their view is that not one illegal immigrant should ever be deported, no matter what.
Fringe even for Washington state
La Resistencia does not promote mainstream positions. Not even for Washington state. It’s a fringe ideology that would turn Washington into a lawless sanctuary for anyone who crosses the border illegally. And that’s exactly what La Resistencia is fighting for. Maybe that should be disclosed by left-wing media?
Of course, La Resistencia is free to express its extremist views. But when local media outlets like KING 5 pretend La Resistencia is just a helpful nonprofit providing a service, they’re lying to the public. They’re giving a sanitized platform to a group that wants to upend law and order—and they’re doing so without any accountability.
Perhaps left-wing media will stop acting as stenographers for radical groups and start asking hard questions? Seattle deserves journalism—not activist amplification. But I won’t hold my breath.
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