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🗞️ Story file #437

House democrats introduce bill to abolish ICE and dismantle DHS

Oct 13, 9 PM ET to Oct 14, 11 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 13, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Western Journal
  2. Oct 13, 9 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
  3. Oct 13, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  4. Oct 14, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 146 AM12 PM6 PM48leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 9 PM to Oct 14, 11 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 13, 12 PM6 PMOct 146 AM12 PM6 PMThe InterceptThe InterceptThe Intercept, Oct 13, 6:02 AM ET: Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland SecurityNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 13, 3:02 PM ET: House Dem pushes bill to abolish Homeland Security after Ilhan Omar raid, NYC ICE shootingFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 13, 5:02 PM ET: 'Squad' Democrat formally introduces bill to abolish ICE, Border Patrol and dismantle DHSThe Post MillennialThe Post MillennialThe Post Millennial, Oct 13, 6:02 PM ET: Dem Rep Delia Ramirez introduces bill to abolish ICE, dismantle DHSThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 13, 6:02 PM ET: House Democrat introduces bill seeking to cut ICE, CBP, replace DHSNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 13, 7:02 PM ET: New Democratic Bill Would Abolish ICE and Shut Down DHSTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 13, 7:02 PM ET: Democrats Introduce Bill to Abolish ICE and Border Patrol Ahead of Midterm ElectionsTownhall, Oct 13, 8:02 PM ET: Democrats Introduce Bill to Abolish ICE and Border Patrol Ahead of Midterm Elections Joe ChalfantThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 13, 9:02 PM ET: House Democrats Introduce New Bill to Abolish Not Just ICE, But the Entire Department of Homeland Security📺 TVFox News, 9:38 PM ET: ANGIE NIXON VOWS TO ABOLISH ICE IF ELECTEDFox News, 2:38 AM ET: HOUSE DEM INTRODUCES BILL TO ABOLISH DHS, ICE, AND CBPFox News, 2:38 AM ET: ANGIE NIXON VOWS TO ABOLISH ICE IF ELECTEDBBC News, 6:30 AM ET: US immigration enforcementBBC News, 6:35 AM ET: Economic toll of US immigration enforcementBBC News, 6:36 AM ET: Economic toll of US immigration enforcementBBC News, 6:38 AM ET: Economic toll of US immigration enforcementFox News, 7:09 AM ET: DEM GOV HOCHUL SLAMS ICE AS "OUT OF CONTROL"Fox News, 3:17 PM ET: NY DSA: TISCH MUST GET ICE OUT OF NY OR BE FIREDFox News, 4:09 PM ET: DEM BILL SEEKS TO CUT ICE, CBP, REPLACE DHSMSNOW, 7:14 PM ET: HOUSE DEMS PLOT MOVES TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLEMSNOW, 7:14 PM ET: HOUSE DEMS PLOT MOVES TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
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💬 quoted: “Squad”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Townhall (2 wordings): “Democrats Introduce Bill to Abolish ICE and Border Patrol Ahead of Midterm Elections” → “Democrats Introduce Bill to Abolish ICE and Border Patrol Ahead of Midterm Elections Joe Chalfant”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News2 min
Fox News71 s
MSNOW26 s
  • Economic toll of US immigration enforcement BBC News, 88 s
  • ANGIE NIXON VOWS TO ABOLISH ICE IF ELECTED Fox News, 28 s
  • US immigration enforcement BBC News, 28 s
  • HOUSE DEMS PLOT MOVES TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE MSNOW, 26 s
  • HOUSE DEM INTRODUCES BILL TO ABOLISH DHS, ICE, AND CBP Fox News, 17 s
  • DEM BILL SEEKS TO CUT ICE, CBP, REPLACE DHS Fox News, 14 s
  • NY DSA: TISCH MUST GET ICE OUT OF NY OR BE FIRED Fox News, 9 s
  • DEM GOV HOCHUL SLAMS ICE AS "OUT OF CONTROL" Fox News, 3 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🃏 The Babylon Bee

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Republicans portray Democrats as a more effective and bold party than they actually are. Oct 14: told by 7 people (same issue); told before on Oct 7

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Homeland Security Department Democratic Party Ilhan Omar Homeland Security Bureau

🔎 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.