Vance Comments On Retracted NBC Story Day Before ICE Shooting

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Vice President JD Vance didn’t just clap back — he burned the bridge and salted the earth behind him.

Speaking from North Carolina, Vance ripped the media to shreds for what he says is their ongoing campaign to demonize law enforcement — particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And he didn’t mince words. According to him, if you’re still out here comparing ICE officers to Hitler’s Gestapo, you can “go straight to hell.”

Not “please stop.” Not “let’s have a respectful dialogue.”
Straight. To. Hell.

And honestly? It’s about time someone said it with their chest.

Because let’s not pretend this media narrative came out of nowhere. For years, the loudest voices on the left have been busy turning ICE into a cartoonish villain — the big bad wolf in every immigration story, the punchline to every late-night monologue, the faceless henchmen of a supposedly “authoritarian regime.” And all the while, real men and women in uniform — doing their jobs, protecting borders, enforcing laws — have been put in the crosshairs. Sometimes literally.

Vance was responding to a deadly shooting at a Texas ICE facility that had happened just hours before. You’d think that would trigger some kind of national moment of reflection — but no, the usual suspects stayed weirdly quiet. Because acknowledging that ICE agents are actually people — people with families, badges, and a legal mandate — doesn’t fit the left’s narrative.

Instead, what we get is stuff like this: NBC breathlessly reporting that ICE detained a 5-year-old autistic girl to get to her father. Except… that never happened. According to Vance, the whole story was a flat-out fabrication. And after the damage was done — after the narrative had been seeded across a thousand social media feeds — NBC sheepishly issued a correction. As if that undoes the lie. As if that doesn’t plant yet another seed of outrage in the minds of unstable people who already think law enforcement is some sort of fascist militia.

NBC had to retract its article- but of course, the damage was done. That’s their purpose, isn’t it?

Here’s the part no one wants to say out loud: words matter. Narratives matter. When Democrat governors like Gavin Newsom compare ICE agents to jackbooted thugs, they’re not just scoring political points — they’re making real targets out of real people. They’re painting a bullseye on the backs of the men and women who enforce laws passed by Congress. You know, the laws they swore an oath to uphold.

But JD Vance is done playing nice. Done pretending that it’s just “political rhetoric” or “spirited disagreement.” He made it clear: you don’t have to love Trump’s immigration policy. You don’t have to agree with Vance. But when your words actively fuel violence against American law enforcement? You’re not part of the debate. You’re part of the problem.

And Vance isn’t just talking to a couple of fringe bloggers here. He’s calling out the big players — the media institutions that still act shocked when anyone on the right dares to call them biased, even as they continue to frame ICE agents as villains and criminals as victims.

How many times does this cycle have to repeat before someone finally says: Enough?

Because here’s the thing: if this shooting in Texas had been in reverse — if an ICE officer had so much as sneezed in the direction of a suspect — we’d already have 24/7 cable coverage, national protests, and a lecture from Kamala Harris about “equity in enforcement.” But when the violence targets ICE? Nothing but crickets and cleaned-up headlines.

Maybe that’s why Vance didn’t hold back. Maybe that’s why his warning felt less like politics and more like a line in the sand.

The question now is: who’s going to cross it next? And will the media finally take responsibility before more blood is spilled — or are they too far gone to even care?

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