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Connecticut Public's June 9, 2026, article wrings its hands over ICE using camera crews during targeted enforcement operations in Danbury. "It's concerning," the piece declares, quoting immigrant advocates who clutch pearls about "entertainment from people's pain" while federal agents arrest individuals with records including sexual assault on minors, child abuse, kidnapping, and assault on police.
This isn't journalism — it's activism wrapped in selective outrage. The premise collapses under its own hypocrisy.
The article, which was republished by CT Mirror, spotlights Scott Kemp and Carolina Bortolleto of Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants (also known as Danbury Unites for Immigrants). These activists claim shock that a professional camera crew accompanied ICE. Yet this very group — which the Centinal has covered repeatedly for its aggressive tactics — routinely chases, films, and publicizes ICE agents in real time to warn illegal immigrants and obstruct operations.
They deploy volunteers with phones and cameras, post footage on Instagram and Facebook, distribute "know your rights" materials during raids, and actively canvass to tip off targets. While ICE "documentation" is meant for transparency and accountability, the activists are all about "doxxing" and intimidation. When activists film agents to protect lawbreakers, it's portrayed as heroic resistance. When ICE films its own lawful arrests for public accountability — especially after years of media distortion — it's suddenly sinister "reality TV" exploitation. Gimme a break!
ICE said those arrested in Danbury on June 4 had been released from local jails thanks to Connecticut's sanctuary state policies that call for ignoring certain detainers. Many faced serious criminal charges, including sexual assault against a minor, child abuse, kidnapping, and assault on police officers. This isn't about "families" or hardworking immigrants; it's about removing public safety threats that sanctuary policies deliberately unleash back into communities.
Tom Homan, former Acting ICE Director and current border czar, keeps telling us what should be plainly obvious to any rational person: "When an undocumented immigrant arrested for a serious crime is released... it endangers the community."
The article also complains that some agents were masked, "violating" Connecticut's new law. That law — pushed by Democrats like Rep. Matt Blumenthal — bans masks for federal agents, requires prominent ID, creates "protected areas," and lets residents sue ICE officers personally. The U.S. Department of Justice sued Connecticut in May 2026, calling the law "blatantly unconstitutional," arguing that states cannot dictate how federal officers perform their duties, especially when masks protect agents from doxxing, ambushes, and violence in high-risk operations.
Even Governor Ned Lamont seemed to recognize the issues with that law, admitting, “I’m not sure that we can arrest federal officials, but we can let them know how strongly we feel about this.”
The truth is a majority of Americans strongly support removing criminal illegals. Recent Harvard/Harris polling shows 80% of voters favor deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes — including majorities of Democrats. Broader polls confirm 70%+ support for deporting criminal aliens and local cooperation with ICE.
Americans are tired of seeing criminal illegals released into their neighborhoods under sanctuary policies, and biased media that frames enforcement of our country's immigration laws as cruelty while ignoring victims of those released under sanctuary policies.
CT Public's selective sympathy for activists who interfere with the law — while demonizing federal officers enforcing it — once again exposes its bias. There's a reason why Trump moved to defund its parent, NPR!
Transparency with cameras works both ways, folks. If Danbury Unites can film agents to thwart enforcement, ICE can document its operations to show the public exactly who is being removed: criminal illegals that sanctuary politicians set free.
Enforcing immigration law isn't "lawlessness." Shielding criminal aliens is. The American people see through the hypocrisy — even if CT Public can't.
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Can these politicians and officials who are ignoring ICE detainers be themselves arrested?
It would be interesting to discover just who is financing these groups who have no other focus than to keep illegal immigrants in our country.