Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin is pushing back on some of Hollywood’s biggest and most influential stars using their social media accounts to disseminate false and misleading information about the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles.
Among them is actress Eva Longoria, who in an Instagram post last week said the ICE raids are taking place in elementary schools and at graduation ceremonies.
“These round-ups are happening in birthday parties, in elementary school graduations, Home Depot,” said Longoria, who has 10.6 million followers. “Those are not criminals and I hope that everybody has more compassion for this issue and realizes we have industries dependent on immigrant labor.”
Just The News recently asked McLaughlin whether the ICE raids are indeed taking place in the locations Longoria listed, to which she replied: “It’s not happening. But if you are an MS-13 gang member, if you are a violent criminal alien, and you try to seek safe harbor in a church or a courthouse or a kindergarten classroom, we will come and get you.
“But to create this fear-mongering that we’ve seen from Eva Longoria, we’ve seen from Sabrina Carpenter and the who’s who of Gen Z, it’s just baloney.”
The rumor about ICE raids at an elementary school graduation in Los Angeles was also debunked by the Los Angeles Times. However, an ICE raid at a Home Depot, where illegal migrants often hang out in the parking lot looking for day-labor jobs, in part sparked the anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles. And arrests were reportedly made at a Hollywood location Thursday.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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