The beleaguered forces of CBS News appear to have completely given themselves over to open-borders advocacy. In an outrageous report, correspondent Lilia Luciano showcases an app designed to track ICE activity, thus helping illegal aliens evade detention and deportation.
Watch as Luciano uses a sympathetic alien in order to sell the app to viewers:
LUCIANO: Oscar works legally in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status, driving horses across the country. He says TPS offers little protection from the threat of an ICE arrest and indefinite detention.
OSCAR: I feel like somebody is behind me, even I don't do nothing wrong.
LUCIANO: To do his job, Oscar relies on this app called Coqui that shows him if ICE agents are nearby.
OSCAR: ICE presence in 15 minutes from here right now.
LUCIANO: He spotted ICE activity as he was hauling horses from New York City to South Carolina.
OSCAR: In this case I just have to take another road.
LUCIANO: Coqui is one of several apps developed recently to let immigrants know when ICE agents are nearby. Deputy Director of ICE Madison Sheahan told us she thinks the apps are dangerous.
MADISON SHEAHAN: Our issue becomes- is when they become violent and are asking people to go cause violence.
LUCIANO: So the apps are used to alert immigrants where ICE is. Those people are not going to be targeted.
SHEAHAN: Well, if it is impeding a law enforcement effort, that’s where that line comes in, as well.
LUCIANO: So who is behind developing these apps? We came to one farm in New York State to meet with an unlikely founder.
PETER: People feel like they're being hunted.
LUCIANO: Peter, who asked us not to use his last name, runs an animal rescue and developed the Coqui app. Why did you decide to create this app?
PETER: There is the desire to protect the people that you love, but there's also a very practical reason. We need help here, and we need workers to get to work.
LUCIANO: People weren't showing up to work?
PETER: Correct. The people were scared to leave their homes.
There are several things at play here. First, the framing of TPS recipients as being in the country legally. This is done in order to create a first layer of separation from the millions of people that crossed the border during the Biden years- but we don’t know how this individual arrived in the United States. He may well have crossed the border illegally, or have been flown into the country under the now-defunct CHNV program, We don’t know, and Luciano makes no effort to clarify. Luciano’s references to “immigrant” and “immigrants” further aims to blur the line between legal and illegal immigrants.
The migrant works in livestock transport. Does he have a U.S. license? How is he moving around? Are there Americans that would readily perform this job? We don’t know, either. It is established that the app helps him avoid ICE while he’s on the road.
After the exchange with the DHS official denouncing the violence at some of these protests, Luciano turns to the creator of the app. And here, you can’t help but notice his underlying rationale for creating the app in the first place:
PETER: There is the desire to protect the people that you love, but there's also a very practical reason. We need help here, and we need workers to get to work.
LUCIANO: People weren't showing up to work?
PETER: Correct. The people were scared to leave their homes.
This app is, in part, about keeping the alien workforce initiative intact. That’s the beating heart of this report. The dark intersection of open-borders advocacy and a need for cheap agricultural labor.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on CBS Evening News on Tuesday, July 15th, 2025:
JOHN DICKERSON: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing half of the 4,000 National Guard troops President Trump sent to Los Angeles last month after protests against migrant roundups turned violent.
MAURICE DuBOIS: At the same time, the administration is cracking down even harder on illegal immigration. Under a new policy, detainees who are facing deportation will not be released on bond if they enter the country illegally.
DICKERSON: To avoid being arrested, some migrants are using apps to tell them the location of ICE agents. Lilia Luciano has more about that.
LILIA LUCIANO: This is Oscar. He came to this country from Venezuela two years ago. He asked us to change his name to protect his identity.
OCSCAR: My mission here is- is work hard to find my American dream.
LUCIANO: Oscar works legally in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status, driving horses across the country. He says TPS offers little protection from the threat of an ICE arrest and indefinite detention.
OSCAR: I feel like somebody is behind me, even I don't do nothing wrong.
LUCIANO: To do his job, Oscar relies on this app called Coqui that shows him if ICE agents are nearby.
OSCAR: ICE presence in 15 minutes from here right now.
LUCIANO: He spotted ICE activity as he was hauling horses from New York City to South Carolina.
OSCAR: In this case I just have to take another road.
LUCIANO: Coqui is one of several apps developed recently to let immigrants know when ICE agents are nearby. Deputy Director of ICE Madison Sheahan told us she thinks the apps are dangerous.
MADISON SHEAHAN: Our issue becomes- is when they become violent and are asking people to go cause violence.
LUCIANO: So the apps are used to alert immigrants where ICE is. Those people are not going to be targeted.
SHEAHAN: Well, if it is impeding a law enforcement effort, that’s where that line comes in, as well.
LUCIANO: So who is behind developing these apps? We came to one farm in New York State to meet with an unlikely founder.
PETER: People feel like they're being hunted.
LUCIANO: Peter, who asked us not to use his last name, runs an animal rescue and developed the Coqui app. Why did you decide to create this app?
PETER: There is the desire to protect the people that you love, but there's also a very practical reason. We need help here, and we need workers to get to work.
LUCIANO: People weren't showing up to work?
PETER: Correct. The people were scared to leave their homes.
LUCIANO: Oscar says it lets him do his job with a little less fear. Right now, you are not in this country illegally.
OSCAR: No.
LUCIANO: Why are you afraid?
OSCAR: I'm afraid because these people just don't ask you before getting detained. I saw everywhere people I know getting detained, being deported.
DICKERSON: Lilia Luciano reporting.
