Denver news has to issue correction after claiming illegal immigrant arrested by ICE was no criminal
A local news station in Denver, Colorado, was forced to issue a correction after reporting that an illegal immigrant recently arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no criminal record. The correction came after ICE publicly called out KUSA Denver for the false reporting. It started when ICE arrested 41-year-old Victor Manuel Montanez-Jacquez during a recent sweep. Montanez-Jacquez was not the person ICE agents were initially looking for, but when they encountered him as he was getting ready for work and asked for documentation, he did not give a response. The agents were able to determine that he was in the country illegally and took him into custody. KUSA Denver interviewed the Mexican national's family, who said, "His lunch box was just left on the driveway, you know. He was ready for another day at work, and just to go and see that empty lunch box on the driveway, that’s what really hit us." KUSA Denver's headline about the incident stated, "Man without criminal history detained by ICE on his way to work." The headline and initial story were false. 'If we receive answers to our questions from ICE, they often comes days later.' ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations for Denver released a statement explaining that Montanez-Jacquez had illegally entered the United States three times and had pled guilty to driving under the influence in January 2024. "He also had a DUI conviction in 2005 when he was residing in Fort Collins, Colorado," the statement continued. — (@) KUSA Denver host Kyle Clark claimed the station misreported Montanez-Jacquez's criminal status after reporters searched his name in ICE's database and no other criminal convictions came up. It turned out that the state judicial system had spelled his name a different way in its records, leading to the news agency's confident, yet erroneous, reporting.One of the critical errors in KUSA Denver's reporting is that while reporters did reach out to ICE for comment, they did not wait to get a full response, because it sometimes takes days to get one from the agency."We reached out to ICE yesterday morning and received a response yesterday afternoon that getting information may take some time. That's a standard response from ICE. If we receive answers to our questions from ICE, they often comes days later, but yesterday's response from ICE should have been included in our reporting. We apologize that it was not," Clark said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
A local news station in Denver, Colorado, was forced to issue a correction after reporting that an illegal immigrant recently arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no criminal record. The correction came after ICE publicly called out KUSA Denver for the false reporting.
It started when ICE arrested 41-year-old Victor Manuel Montanez-Jacquez during a recent sweep. Montanez-Jacquez was not the person ICE agents were initially looking for, but when they encountered him as he was getting ready for work and asked for documentation, he did not give a response. The agents were able to determine that he was in the country illegally and took him into custody.
KUSA Denver interviewed the Mexican national's family, who said, "His lunch box was just left on the driveway, you know. He was ready for another day at work, and just to go and see that empty lunch box on the driveway, that’s what really hit us."
KUSA Denver's headline about the incident stated, "Man without criminal history detained by ICE on his way to work." The headline and initial story were false.
'If we receive answers to our questions from ICE, they often comes days later.'
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations for Denver released a statement explaining that Montanez-Jacquez had illegally entered the United States three times and had pled guilty to driving under the influence in January 2024.
"He also had a DUI conviction in 2005 when he was residing in Fort Collins, Colorado," the statement continued.
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KUSA Denver host Kyle Clark claimed the station misreported Montanez-Jacquez's criminal status after reporters searched his name in ICE's database and no other criminal convictions came up. It turned out that the state judicial system had spelled his name a different way in its records, leading to the news agency's confident, yet erroneous, reporting.
One of the critical errors in KUSA Denver's reporting is that while reporters did reach out to ICE for comment, they did not wait to get a full response, because it sometimes takes days to get one from the agency.
"We reached out to ICE yesterday morning and received a response yesterday afternoon that getting information may take some time. That's a standard response from ICE. If we receive answers to our questions from ICE, they often comes days later, but yesterday's response from ICE should have been included in our reporting. We apologize that it was not," Clark said.
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