Fake News NBC Affiliate Ran Another ‘ICE Family Separation’ Story – That Was False

 

NBC 5 in Fort Worth produced a sympathetic investigation about two teenage girls living alone after their parents were deported by ICE. The anchor framing: a “stark example of the precarious situations facing thousands of U.S. citizen children whose parents have been detained during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.” Critics cited “rapid deportations” and a “new form of family separation.”

Then DHS told the part NBC buried toward the end. The girls’ mother, Daysi Eladi Munoz-Duron, was arrested by Burleson police for suspected shoplifting at a Walmart back-to-school shopping trip. After local law enforcement arrested her, she was transferred to ICE custody. She accepted a voluntary return and was deported in August 2025.