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ICE conducted a two-week enforcement operation in the DC metro area, arresting over 1,300 undocumented immigrants. The Guardian's coverage compared ICE tactics to torture, while domestic outlets focused on the operation's scale.
ICE conducted a two-week enforcement sweep in the DC metro area suburbs and arrested over 1,300 people. The Guardian's coverage compared ICE tactics to torture, while domestic news outlets focused primarily on the operation's raw numbers. The split in coverage—between international outlets describing interrogation methods and U.S. outlets reporting arrest counts—reveals how differently outlets frame the same enforcement action.
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