🗞️ Story file #1007
ICE disputes claims of immigration fraud in deportation case
Oct 27, 8 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏0 · 0 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 22 hourson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 88 sof TV captions
- 7people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 27, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
- Oct 27, 11 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
- Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 7 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “60 Minutes” 5 “Fake And Gay” 3 “sob story” “Fake and Gay” 3 “Texas Father”
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “’60 Minutes’ Featured Deported Illegal’s Sob Story. His Asylum Application Adds A Twist.” → “What Did ’60 Minutes’ Leave Out Of Deportation Sob Story? Turns Out, A Lot.”
- The Federalist (2 wordings): “‘Fake And Gay’: ICE Calls Out CBS News For Leaving Out Deported Alien’s Apparent Immigration Fraud” → “1 Trending: ‘Fake And Gay’: ICE Calls Out CBS News For Leaving Out Deported Alien’s Apparent Immigration Fraud”
- Townhall (2 wordings): “Here's the Truth Behind '60 Minutes' Report on 'Texas Father' Deported by ICE” → “ICE Calls Out 'Fake and Gay' CBS News Over Deportation Segment on 60 Minutes”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
New York Post
‘60 Minutes’ knew married dad said he was gay on immigration docs to avoid deportation — but still ran story: DHS Oct 27, 11 PM ET
PJ Media
'60 Minutes' Features Wife and Kids of Illegal Alien Who Said He’s ‘Gay’ to Avoid Deportation Oct 26, 12 PM ET
The Blaze
ICE mocks deportation 'sob story' on '60 Minutes' — and dismantles its narrative with one inconvenient detail Oct 26, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire
’60 Minutes’ Featured Deported Illegal’s Sob Story. His Asylum Application Adds A Twist. Oct 26, 7 PM ET
The Federalist
‘Fake And Gay’: ICE Calls Out CBS News For Leaving Out Deported Alien’s Apparent Immigration Fraud Oct 26, 6 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
FAKE NEWS BUSTED: CBS’s Sob Story on Deportation of African Illegal Alien Gets Blown to Smithereens as DHS Catches Outlet in This HUGE Lie (VIDEO) Oct 26, 11 AM ET
The Western Journal
'60 Minutes' Attempted to Run Cover for a Deported Illegal Alien - The Sob Story Crumbled in a Matter of Hours Oct 26, 5 PM ET
Townhall
Here's the Truth Behind '60 Minutes' Report on 'Texas Father' Deported by ICE Oct 26, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Pretti was fatally shot by immigration agents in Minneapolis in January CNN, 88 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Immigration authorities are seeking to deport a mentally ill man who is likely a U.S. citizen. Oct 28: told by 7 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: CBS News ICE DHS 60 Minutes African country (specific not named)
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.