Newsbusters Tonight’s CBS Evening News attempted to instil in viewers a scary mental image of ICE agents bursting into Los Angeles schools in order to conduct immigration raids. In so doing, they omit a critical detail that would crumble the narrative they are attempting to craft. Anchor Maurice DuBois and correspondent Carter Evans evoke imagery of ICE raids, allude to “heavily Latino neighborhoods”, and zero in on high schools. The story is tailor-made for race-based scaremongering.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 (click “expand” to view transcript):
MAURICE DuBOIS: Today was the first day of a new school year in Los Angeles. The nation’s second largest school system. It has more than 500,000 students in a county where more than a third of the residents are immigrants. This year, Carter Evans reports, teachers are keeping an eye out for potential ICE raids.
CARTER EVANS: As students headed back to school across Los Angeles, little about this first day felt normal. School officials, teachers, and community groups are setting up the so-called safe zones in heavily Latino neighborhoods, focused on high schools where students walk to campus.
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