CBS’s The Equalizer Vilifies ICE and Trump Era Immigration Policies

The CBS crime drama The Equalizer pushed open borders and vilified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week in an episode riddled with tired Hollywood clichés about illegal immigration. 

On Sunday, January 2, the show’s episode, “Separated,” heroine Robyn Mcall (Queen Latifah), helps an immigrant mom find her son at the U.S. frontier.

When network television attempts to tug at the viewers heart strings on illegal immigration, they often follow a predictable emotional formula: a sweet young illegal immigrant mother and her adorable child are prevented from being happy in the U.S. by big, bad immigration laws. Hollywood does not dramatize the children traffickers used to cross the borders. 

The formula is true in this episode. The Equalizer opens in the year 2020 with an over-the-top scene in which a mother, Alma (Andrea Cortés), arrives at the border with her boy, Pedro (Logan J. Alarcon-Poucel). ICE agents suddenly appear and take Alma’s child. 

Alma (Whispering), Okay. (Speaking Spanish) (Vehicle approaches) (Siren chirps) (Door opens) Señor. (Door opens) (Indistinct radio chatter) We are seeking asylum. 

American ICE Agent 

Alma: Uh, no. Alma: No. 

ICE Agent: This is illegal crossing. This is criminal trespassing. 

Alma: Our lives were at stake. Here’s proof. 

ICE Agent: Let’s take the boy.

Alma: No! You have the proof.

Pedro: ¡mami! ¡Mami!

Alma: I can’t take him. It’s impossible to take my son. 

Pedro: ¡Mami!

Alma: No! Alma: No! You must stop. Stop. Stop. Pedro! Pedro! 

So many thoughts run through your head as you watch that scene. Did Alma really think she could just sneak through the U.S. border in the middle of the night and authorities would simply let her into the country, no questions asked? Why didn’t she present her proof of eligibility for asylum through established legal means in her country or in the safest place she can be from before embarking on such dangerous journey? Can Hollywood writers create an ICE agent that looks and sounds even remotely believable?

Alma sees McCall one year later to ask for assistance. She tells McCall, “At border. Everything seemed perfect. When we crossed, we presented ourselves to agents, asked for asylum. He was taken from me and sent me home without my permission. 

In what lawless world does sneaking across a border in the dark of night count as doing “everything right”? McCall is told the sad tale Alma shares about fleeing violent persecution in her homeland. In truth, the majority of illegal immigrants cross the border for economic reasons.

Pedro had been placed at a home of charity run by an immigrant from Mexico. However, some racists attempted to torch the place and cause havoc.

When McCall and a police officer who works with her find the burnt-out home, McCall disparages former President Donald Trump’s successful immigration policies.

“We should’ve never been separating these kids from their families to begin with,” McCall says. McCall says, “Even with all the Zero tolerance policy on border policies lifted, it’s still a nightmare for the kids who may never see their families again.”

The show perpetuated the long-debunked falsehood pushed by Democrats and the media that hundreds of children were cruelly separated from their parents and went missing, never to be seen again.

McCall locates the next charity home to which Pedro was sent. However, his name is now gone from their database. It turns out Pedro has been deleted from the system because a data clerk is secretly working with an ICE agent to facilitate the trafficking of illegal immigrant children.

An ICE agent — not gangs, cartels or powerful elites — is the guilty party in the episode. 

McCall manages to find the illegal sweatshop in which Pedro was trafficked. McCall reunites father and child. In the end, a lawyer is able to get Alma and Pedro “a special Visa for victims of the border separation policy.”  

See? That nice Biden administration let sweet Alma, who did Nothing wrong at all, live happily ever after in America with her son. This is not the Trump administration, which ruined everything because it believed that countries should share borders.

Once you’ve seen the same cut-and paste script repeatedly, it becomes tedious. To ensure the survival of any nation, border enforcement is essential. Encouraging people to follow the law also protects immigrants from exploitation by coyotes and other nefarious actors. While the majority of Americans support immigration enforcement, Hollywood will continue lecturing until they are out of your lives. 

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