🗞️ Story file #437
House democrats introduce bill to abolish ICE and dismantle DHS
Oct 13, 9 PM ET to Oct 14, 11 PM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏1 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 1.1 dayson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof 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 13, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Western Journal
- Oct 13, 9 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
- Oct 13, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 14, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 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
The Intercept
Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security Oct 13, 6 AM ET
Newsweek
New Democratic Bill Would Abolish ICE and Shut Down DHS Oct 13, 7 PM ET
The Hill
House Democrat introduces bill seeking to cut ICE, CBP, replace DHS Oct 13, 6 PM ET
Fox News
'Squad' Democrat formally introduces bill to abolish ICE, Border Patrol and dismantle DHS Oct 13, 5 PM ET
New York Post
House Dem pushes bill to abolish Homeland Security after Ilhan Omar raid, NYC ICE shooting Oct 13, 3 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Dem Rep Delia Ramirez introduces bill to abolish ICE, dismantle DHS Oct 13, 6 PM ET
The Western Journal
House Democrats Introduce New Bill to Abolish Not Just ICE, But the Entire Department of Homeland Security Oct 13, 9 PM ET
Townhall
Democrats Introduce Bill to Abolish ICE and Border Patrol Ahead of Midterm Elections Oct 13, 7 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- 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
🧶 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.