CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ Airs Predictably Partisan, Pro-Mob Story on ICE in Minneapolis

Sunday’s 60 Minutes should be the clearest sign yet that little has changed at CBS News under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as, despite the apocalytpic claims from so-called “media reporters,” they’re still churning out partisan drivel. Along with airing the story on the El Salvadoran jail CECOT (which was nearly identical to the one Weiss held up last month), 60 Minutes opened with a pity party for Minneapolis by correspondent Cecilia Vega sucking up to Minneapolis and huffing about Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE).

Vega immediately sought to illicit sympathy for the illegal immigrants and never say a word about their criminal records:

Because the liberal media are largely incapable of nuance and thus Minneapolis and illegal immigrants are always good and ICE is always bad, she also found her hero:

It was five minutes and 11 seconds before she even spoke to someone with ICE (or anyone presenting the other side):

The only micro-dose of truth serum about what’s happening in Minneapolis came next when Vega asked O’Hara if he’s okay with anti-ICE protesters hurling phrases like “Nazi.” O’Hara insisted anyone should be able to say what they want (even if it’s “disrespectful things,” but conceded “physically obstruct[ing] law enforcement from performing a function” is “illegal.”

Vega again pressed Charles with an extreme position that ICE agents can do anything and everything to anyone they come into contact with. When Charles pointed out anyone who lays hands on law enforcement will be arrested, Vega conceded “I don’t think most Americans would disagree with you on that.”

Vega then tried to have her cake and eat it too, touting “a perception” about ICE which she wouldn’t cop to, but the liberal media have actively concocted: “I don’t think most Americans would disagree with you on that. What concerns a lot of people is some of the images that they’ve seen. There’s a perception out there that immigration agents in Minneapolis and many other cities are acting with impunity.”

“You’re not seeing the entirety of the situation. Not only that — mainstream media is picking up those social media posts and putting them out as real news without looking at the whole story,” Charles replied.

Vega upped the emotional blackmail:

Vega conceded “Homeland Security released these images of injured ICE officers” which “[a]ccording to the agency, attacks on ICE officers nationwide jumped from 19 in 2024 to 275 last year” with many “sustained as agents were carrying out what ICE calls ‘targeted enforcement.’”

The former ABC correspondent flipped back to casting aside ICE’s concerns and the now-viral video of ICE asking a woman for her papers: “In Minneapolis, many residents say it seems to be less targeted every day. American citizens are getting stopped and questioned, including a woman walking down the street.”

Once again, she cleared a path for O’Hara to be on a pedestal of wokeism (click “expand”):

O’HARA: People have been stopped for simply appearing to be Somali or appearing to be Latino or appearing to be foreign. And it’s concerning, because we also know we’re not getting these stories from Irish folks and Norwegian folks here.

CHARLES: Our officers are — are conducting targeted enforcement, looking for the worst of the worst. If they encounter anybody in the area of which they’re operating, they are okay to talk to those people. They’ve been authorized to talk to anybody that’s around there and establish citizenship.

VEGA [TO CHARLES]: How is that targeted enforcement?

CHARLES: If they were in that area looking for a target, and they were en route or coming from that target and encountered that individual, they are authorized to talk to somebody and speak to somebody to speak someone.

VEGA [TO CHARLES]: I mean, what — what’s — how do you define the area? Officers are walking down the street, driving down the street, the entire city of Minneapolis, is everybody potentially —

CHARLES: It — potentially as — as —

VEGA [TO CHARLES]: — under suspicion?

CHARLES: — no. Nobody’s under suspicion. But we’re looking for those targets. And, again, if we walk — encounter somebody — as we’re walking up to a building, as we’re en route to that building, that’s still part of that operation as they proceed to that target.

She wrapped with the news of Justice Department launching investigations into Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) and Governor Tim Walz (D) and one last softball for O’Hara: “What could happen today, tomorrow to bring this temperature down out there?”

O’Hara put it entirely on President Trump to turn down the temperature and nothing about the role of state and local officials: “I think it requires the President to say, ‘we’re still going to go after the worst of the worst, but we’re not going to be treating American citizens in ways that risk destroying a beautiful American city.’”

One problem: Even O’Hara’s fellow leftists — including O'Hara and his bosses — are opposed to even “the worst of the worst” being deported by ICE. If they were supportive, the city would not be a sanctuary city.

To see the relevant CBS transcript from January 19, click here.