Bill Melugin Adds Context NBC News Could NOT Find Room for in Attempted Deportation Sob Story

Doug P. | 2:47 PM on August 17, 2026

It's time again to play the usual game of "media headlines vs. what the actual story is," and today our player is NBC News.

Can you only imagine how different public perception would be if the U.S. had even a remotely honest media that shared facts instead of the desired propaganda to help Democrats?

Here's what NBC had to say about a couple of recent deportations:

A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras.

ICE says it “does not separate families” and that parents can choose to be removed with their children or designate a safe person to…
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 17, 2026

ICE doesn't separate families, but NBC doesn't want everybody to know that sometimes the families separate themselves.

Fox News' Bill Melugin added more context that NBC obviously didn't want to put out front and center:

As usual, buried within the underlying article is the revelation that their mother was arrested by local police on suspicion of shoplifting - which is how the parents ended up on ICE's radar as they were both in the US illegally.

Illegal aliens have been offered $2,600 and a… https://t.co/Bhd9JV8vzM
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 17, 2026

"As usual, buried within the underlying article is the revelation that their mother was arrested by local police on suspicion of shoplifting - which is how the parents ended up on ICE's radar as they were both in the US illegally. Illegal aliens have been offered $2,600 and a flight home to self-deport for a long time now. They've been warned repeatedly they will be subject to arrest, detention, and deportation if they don't take advantage of that offer."

Oh, well that does make a little bit of a difference, which is why NBC buried it down in the story. The NBC headline is "US citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents."

NBC, where the truth goes to die. The mom was a criminal. She’s responsible for the separation, just like other criminals who commit crimes and end up in prison separated from their children. Quit dumbing down society with your bullshit propaganda.
— Orbeekins 🇺🇸 (@orbeekins) August 17, 2026

You can't despise the media too much.

In other words, the mother had already been separated from her family in the way that families are separated all the time by our justice system. https://t.co/1veBvE4Jc4
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) August 17, 2026

Bingo.

They chose not to go with their parents so it was their choice to break up the family, ICE didn't decide. The whole family should have been sent together.
— Jar Head (@JarHead03520352) August 17, 2026

The Democrats thank NBC News for their service.

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