In this NewsBusters article, Jorge Bonilla exposes how ABC World News Tonight deliberately downplayed a violent illegal alien’s assault on an ICE agent by referring to him only as a generic “suspect,” shielding his immigration status and criminal resistance to deportation.
- Friedrich Castillo-Ormeno, an illegal immigrant from Peru who entered under Biden, rammed his van into an ICE officer during an arrest attempt in Manahawkin, New Jersey, forcing the agent to fire shots in self-defense.
- The ICE agent was injured and hospitalized, while Castillo-Ormeno fled the scene and remains at large despite a final deportation order issued against him on January 30.
- David Muir’s report on ABC World News Tonight omitted all details of the perpetrator’s illegal status, prior removal order, and the context of an ICE enforcement operation.
- This incident highlights the rising violence against immigration enforcement officers amid efforts to deport criminal aliens who should never have been in the country.
- ABC’s word games and selective omissions exemplify the legacy media’s pattern of biasing coverage to delegitimize border enforcement and protect illegal aliens at the expense of American law enforcement.
- CBS and NBC provided zero coverage, opting instead for trivial stories like a UK social media ban and Amazon delivery drones.
- The assault underscores the real-world dangers posed by unremoved deportable aliens and the media’s complicity in minimizing those threats.
Read the full story:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2026/06/16/abc-downplays-illegal-alien-ramming-car-ice-agent-suspect
