CNN Boosts Story of ‘Disabled’ Woman Arrested By ICE, She’s a ‘Social Justice’ Activist

On Tuesday’s Inside Politics, CNN try to present credence to a narrative that an unlucky “disabled” lady was accosted and arrested by ICE for supposedly no purpose whereas attempting get to a health care provider’s appointment. However a easy search of the lady’s title, Aliya Rahman, turns up a treasure trove proving that she had an extended historical past as an expert liberal activist working with far-left organizations that promote “racial,” “prison,” and “social justice.” With a part of her focus being towards legislation enforcement.

“We’re listening to for the primary time from Aliya Rahman, the lady ICE officers dragged from her automobile whereas she shouted that she was disabled and attempting to get to her physician’s workplace,” introduced host Dana Bash.

What adopted up was a soundbite of Rahman claiming that even somebody with out her cognitive processing issues would have a difficulty understanding the ICE agent’s order to maneuver her automotive out of their manner:

I believe even somebody who doesn’t have the form of auditory processing challenges I do wouldn’t know what to do with the sentence “transfer, I’ll break your effing window.” After which backwards and forwards between, “transfer, get out,” attempting to open my door, extra threats of breaking a window, which I don’t perceive the practical objective of. And it’s not a warning, its a menace of violence, that basically shouldn’t be packaged with an instruction.

However they by no means defined who Rahman was outdoors the incident in query.

A easy Google seek for her title flip up her employment web page for New America, a left-wing group, which listed her as their fellow from the Open Know-how Institute.

New America boasts about her:

Her work was knowledgeable by a background in legislative, electoral, and neighborhood organizing for racial and prison justice campaigns, fifteen years of software program improvement for the social justice motion, and a former life as an educator and researcher working in public schooling and workforce improvement.

Aliya served previously as Program Director at Code for Progress, the place she led the recruitment, in-residence coaching, and job placement of neighborhood organizers of shade into full-time developer positions. She can also be is the previous Discipline Director of Equality Ohio, the place she constructed a statewide area program targeted on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights teams, and labor. Previous to that, she labored for the Middle for Neighborhood Change, first as their Ohio organizer within the passage of employment laws supporting previously incarcerated individuals, and later as a nationwide circuit rider working with immigrant rights teams on voter engagement.

About themselves, New America brazenly declared they’re all about “fairness” (Click on “develop”):

We’re devoted to realizing the promise of America in an period of fast technological and social change.

At New America, our analysis and coverage suggestions deal with 5 key thematic areas: schooling and work; household financial safety and wellbeing; world politics for individuals and planet; political reform and civic engagement; and expertise and democracy.

In every space of our work, we put fairness on the middle; elevate tales of individuals closest to the general public issues we search to unravel; spend money on the subsequent technology of leaders; and deliberately have interaction with native views.

Taken collectively, these efforts advance towards our imaginative and prescient of a extra equitable America that lives as much as its values.

Rahman’s true id was found again on January 14 by the New York Put up, but six days later, CNN was nonetheless attempting to drag one over on their viewers.

On the flip facet of this, Bash gave the ‘conservatives pounce’ remedy to the story of a crazed leftist mob storming a church on Sunday and shouting down their service:

[Y]ou’re virtually certainly seeing completely on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is one thing else that occurred in Minneapolis yesterday. There was a church service the place protesters made a degree of going to this church service and utilizing that as a staging space for, you realize, making their, um, the truth that they are not pleased with ICE, recognized. And this is without doubt one of the issues up to now, perhaps, perhaps the factor that the Trump Justice Division is trying into whether or not federal legal guidelines have been damaged there.

“So, it is a battle of narratives, for positive,” griped Leigh Ann Caldwell, chief Washington correspondent for Puck Information. “Republicans are going to deal with that, that you realize, protesters, liberals are – do not respect ICE officers, Federal Legislation Enforcement, they do not even respect your Sunday church service the place you are at.”

Additional within the dialog, CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson made the remark that, “Barack Obama, he deported like 3 million individuals and nobody received shot within the face, and also you did not, you realize, see individuals getting ripped out of automobiles, and so that’s the downside.”

What Henderson’s snarky remark brushed over was the truth that the media again then have been Obama’s lapdogs who refused to talk negatively about him; not like with Trump, for whom they stoke and ferment hate and hysteria to the purpose the place individuals attempt to hinder ICE and attempt to kill them.

NewsBusters Intern Nicholas Spinnato contributed to this weblog.

The transcript is beneath. Click on “develop” to learn:

CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana BashJanuary 20, 202612:36:39 p.m. Japanese

DANA BASH: We’re listening to for the primary time from Aliya Rahman, the lady ICE officers dragged from her automobile whereas she shouted that she was disabled and attempting to get to her physician’s workplace. Right here she is with our colleague Laura Coates

[Cuts to video]

ALIYA RAHMAN: I believe even somebody who doesn’t have the form of auditory processing challenges I do wouldn’t know what to do with the sentence “transfer, I’ll break your effing window.” After which backwards and forwards between, “transfer, get out,” attempting to open my door, extra threats of breaking a window, which I don’t perceive the practical objective of. And it’s not a warning, its a menace of violence, that basically shouldn’t be packaged with an instruction.”

[Cuts back to live]

BASH: And our panel is again right here. John, you’ve been out lots, across the nation. I simply marvel if what you’re listening to, even from Trump Supporters, matches what we’re seeing in our polling, which isn’t loads of help.

JOHN KING: Too far, too far. Donald Trump had a mandate when he gained the election to have fairly aggressive immigration actions, together with aggressive deportations, the American individuals have been fed up.

However, and it’s crucial however, I’d capitalize it in daring face this however, even Trump supporters once they watch these things say it’s an excessive amount of. And so, I do suppose the language – as you simply heard the lady there yanked from the automotive, you’re going to see in Democratic adverts this fall, I’m not going to repeat it right here, the language utilized by the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good. After which there was one other one captured the subsequent day; ‘Do not you do not wish to find yourself like that bleep, bleep, bleep.’

Suburban girls determined the 2018 election as a result of they thought in regards to the 5 A.M. tweets and all of the chaos of the primary Trump time period, and so they stated we’ve got to should run our households lives, and that is simply over the road, it is an excessive amount of, it is an excessive amount of. I believe that’s, that is a typical theme in our ballot, that even individuals who help the president right here help the president there suppose, whoa, you are excessive right here.

I do suppose there are, you realize, once more, the president had a mandate to repair the immigration system, the American individuals would help orderly deportations of people who find themselves right here illegally. There can be a debate about, do it’s a must to commit against the law? You already know, the place’s the road? I believe can be a good debate in our public.

However the tone and the tenor, the repetitive nature of this, they are not one offs anymore, you realize,  it is not, it is not a one scenario, you realize, and lots of people have empathy for individuals in legislation enforcement. They’ve very disturbing jobs. And so you may’t – there however for the grace of God. Proper? However if you see it many times and once more, I believe the tone of this, given the place key elections are determined, and given there are loads of reluctant Trump voters who stated, I would like the border closed and I would like a greater financial system, however I do not need that stuff once more, that that is too far.

BASH: And what you will see right here, as a result of we’ll present you all the pieces, however you are virtually certainly seeing completely on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is one thing else that occurred in Minneapolis yesterday. There was a church service the place protesters made a degree of going to this church service and utilizing that as a staging space for, you realize, making their, um, the truth that they are not pleased with ICE, recognized. And this is without doubt one of the issues up to now, perhaps, perhaps the factor that the Trump Justice Division is trying into whether or not federal legal guidelines have been damaged there. Let’s pay attention.

[Cuts to video]

HARMEET DHILLON (DOJ, assistant lawyer normal for human rights): The lawyer normal reached out to me about this yesterday once I was on an airplane, and earlier than I landed, we might already scrambled the jets and gotten prosecutors assigned to this, in addition to reached out to the FBI and had brokers assigned and the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace in Minneapolis assigned to this. So, listed below are already a number of legislation enforcement officers engaged on this as of yesterday night.

LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: So, it is a battle of narratives, for positive. Republicans are going to deal with that, that you realize, protesters, liberals are – do not respect ICE officers, Federal Legislation Enforcement, they do not even respect your Sunday church service the place you are at.

However, I’ll say that the photographs that ICE has been very aggressive in selling, themselves, as John stated, seems prefer it might begin to backfire. On Capitol Hill. You already know, I reported over the weekend that that Democratic management are, are, are fascinated about a probe – a quiet – they’re quietly considering proper now a couple of probe into DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, beginning their very own investigation, no matter what Republicans wish to do, as a result of they suppose that the politics are significantly better for them on immigration. The border is closed, Trump took that difficulty away. And in the event that they win again the bulk, they wish to be prepared, actually on day one, to have some kind of accountability and oversight of this DHS.

BASH: Yeah, and now they’re additionally blaming and going after, and because the finish of final week, threatening to or pursuing prosecution of the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, ICE, the social media submit that they put up on Sunday, “Tim Walz and Jacob Frey are liable for whipping these mobs right into a frenzy and permitting them to run rampant. We cannot be deterred.”

That is particularly in regards to the church protests, and I ought to say that Walz has stated that he doesn’t help protesters interrupting homes of worship.

NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: And presumably our former colleague Don Lemon, too, who was there as a journalist filming what was occurring there.

The complaints that the protesters have is that they are saying {that a} pastor at that church is cooperating with the ICE brokers who have been there. I believe common Individuals merely do not perceive why they’re there and why it is getting so uncontrolled.

If you consider Barack Obama, he deported like 3 million individuals and nobody received shot within the face, and also you did not, you realize, see individuals getting ripped out of automobiles, and so that’s the downside.

That is an administration that likes to manipulate by picture, by picture of power. Proper? And we have seen that notably with with, with DHS and a few of these apprehensions. However as you realize, John has stated, Individuals imagine they’ve gone too far. And Democrats do not even really want to message very a lot on it as a result of they will simply see it on their tv.

DAVID CHALIAN: Though, as you see, Democrats might additionally, regardless that which may be smart recommendation, additionally they can simply type a round firing squad amongst themselves, kind of debating the way forward for ICE –

HENDERSON: Abolishing ICE, yeah.

CHALIAN: And the way that created political issues for them just a few years in the past.

BASH: Alright, we’re going to should take a fast break. Thanks all, admire it.