A local news station in Denver, Colorado was forced to make an amendment after reporting that illegal immigrants who were recently arrested by US immigrants and customs enforcement had no criminal history. The correction came after Ice publicly called out Kusa Denver for false reports.
It started when ICE arrested 41-year-old Victor Manuel Montanez-Jacquez in a recent sweeping. Montanes Jax was not the person Ice Agent was looking for in the first place, but when he met him when he prepared for work and asked for documentation, he didn't respond. The agent determined he was illegally in the country and detained him.
Cusa Denver interviewed the family of Mexican citizens. He said, “His lunchbox just stayed in the driveway. You know. He was ready for another day at work. It really hit us.”
Kusa Denver's Heading Regarding the incident, “a man with no criminal history being held on ice on his way to work.” The headline and the original story were wrong.
“If they receive an answer to a question from the ice, they often come in a few days.”
Denver's ICE enforcement and removal operations issued a statement explaining that Montanes Jax had illegally entered the United States three times and pleaded guilty to driving in January 2024 in the affected state.
“He was also convicted of DUI in 2005 while living in Fort Collins, Colorado,” the statement continued.
Kusa Denver host Kyle Clark I insisted After reporters searched his name in the ICE database, the station misreported Montanes Jacquez's criminal status, with no other criminal convictions occurring. The state's judicial system turned out to have spelled his name out of that record different ways, leading to a news agency's confident but false report.
One serious error in Kusa Denver's reporting is that reporters reached out to ICE for comments, but they didn't wait for a full response.
“We contacted the ice yesterday morning and received a response yesterday afternoon that it might take some time to get the information. That's a standard response from ice. Questions from ice If they receive a response to, they often come in a few days later, but Clark said yesterday's response from ice.
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