DHS Slams Press for Describing Nicaraguan Illegal Alien as Green Bay Man

The Department of Homeland Security just did something refreshing. They called out the legacy media for what amounts to journalistic malpractice, and honestly, it’s about time someone in government started naming names when reporters deliberately obscure the truth.

Here’s what happened. David Joel Herrera-Garcia, a 24-year-old illegal alien from Nicaragua, allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and attacked her and another man with a machete. The details are gruesome. Blood all over the concrete leading up to the house. A woman with lacerations on her hand and neck, head injuries that required immediate medical attention. A man with wounds on his shoulder, forearm, and shin. Officers had to apply tourniquets just to keep both victims alive long enough to get them to the hospital.

And how did the media describe this suspect? As a “Green Bay man.” Not an illegal immigrant. Not someone who shouldn’t have been in the country at all. Just a local guy, as if he’d been born and raised in Wisconsin, maybe attended Packers games on Sundays and knew all the best cheese curd spots downtown.

You know what this is? It’s deliberate obfuscation. The press knows exactly what they’re doing when they strip away crucial context from a story. They’re protecting a narrative that illegal immigration is somehow benign, that concerns about border security are overblown, that people worried about who’s entering our country are just xenophobic fear mongers.

Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis didn’t mince words in her statement to Fox Digital. “Yet again, legacy media has gone to bat for a vicious criminal illegal alien allowed by the Biden administration to roam our streets and prey upon innocent people.” That’s not diplomatic language. That’s someone who’s tired of watching the game get rigged.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Herrera-Garcia was marked as a “non-enforcement priority” by the Biden administration. Think about that for a second. This man entered the country illegally as a minor with his father back in 2014. For years, he’s been here, and the federal government essentially shrugged and said he wasn’t worth their time to deport. Now two people are lucky to be alive, and ICE has finally lodged an immigration detainer requesting that Brown County Jail turn him over for possible deportation.

Possible deportation. Not guaranteed. Just possible.

This isn’t an isolated incident either. We’ve seen this pattern play out dozens of times under the current administration. Sanctuary policies that handcuff law enforcement. Federal priorities that put American citizens last. A border that might as well be a suggestion rather than a boundary. And every single time something horrific happens, the media rushes to downplay the immigration angle, to make it seem like citizenship status is irrelevant to the story.

But it’s not irrelevant. It’s the whole point. If our immigration system worked the way it’s supposed to, if the Biden administration hadn’t decided that virtually no one qualifies as an enforcement priority, Herrera-Garcia wouldn’t have been in Green Bay on April 20. Those two victims would have gone about their day without getting hacked at with a machete. They wouldn’t have spent hours in surgery. They wouldn’t carry those scars for the rest of their lives.

The media’s job is supposed to be telling the truth, the whole truth, without editorial spin designed to advance a political agenda. When reporters choose to describe someone as a “Green Bay man” instead of accurately identifying him as an illegal alien from Nicaragua, they’re not doing journalism. They’re doing public relations for open borders advocates.

Individual liberty means nothing if you’re not safe in your own home. Limited government doesn’t mean no border enforcement. It means efficient, effective government that does the essential jobs well, and protecting citizens from foreign nationals who enter illegally and commit violent crimes is about as essential as it gets.

DHS deserves credit for pushing back against this nonsense. The American people deserve media that reports facts instead of massaging them to fit a preferred narrative. And those two victims in Green Bay deserve a country that takes border security seriously enough that they never would have encountered their attacker in the first place.