Pablo Manríquez, editor of Migrant Insider, took to X on March 2, 2025 to leak information about upcoming ICE raids in Northern Virginia. He made a post which included essential details about the operation and tips on how to evade enforcement. The post went viral, and many conservative commentators took aim at his actions.
“ICE RAIDS are planned for Monday & Tuesday in Northern Virginia, per multiple sources who tell us ICE has obtained between 75 and 100 judicial warrants,” Manriquez wrote on X March 2nd. “Judicial warrants mean ICE can go into your homes, so plan accordingly,” he said. A third stated, “Remember that state police have been deputized to help ICE, so highways, etc, are unsafe. This post was dissected on an episode of Fox and Friends, where the hosts expressed their disgust.
“Meanwhile in Northern Virginia, if you were in the country illegally, you got a heads up over the weekend because of the reporter, rather the editor for the migrant insider, Pablo Manriquez with 45,000 followers, put out that ICE is planning raids today,” Steve Doocy began. “As of about an hour ago, that had had 615,000 views. So the migrant community is well aware of what ICE has got planned.”
“He said it was 75-100 judicial warrants that mean a judge has signed an order for them to be brought into custody. But yet he was still okay with tipping them off,” interjected Lawrence Jones. “Do the police go after him now? Because he’s interfering with an investigation,” asked Carley Shimkus. Doocy replied, “He got information. It’s whoever leaked it to him. It could be somebody from the courts. It could be somebody from the federal government.”
“I think the line is, when you start to aid in a bit, whether you’re a journalist or not, I don’t even think that’s journalism, right there,” argued Jones. ” He’s clearly trying to help these people that are there. That post was leaked also to the activists there on the ground as well, right? So these people just got to flee. This is what happened with Aurora as well.”
“Yeah, 200 federal agents that flew from all across the country to help out with this raid, and only end up catching about three or four of the people that they wanted,” he concluded. Earlier, Tom Homan spoke to this issue with reporters. “Remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow an op, they are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy,” he said.
“They are risking their lives and putting their families in the position where they’ll have to live without those individuals any further,” Noem added in her own statement.“It’s amazing how these bureaucrats who have an agenda to stop the work that we’re doing to bring safety to America, how they will sell each other down the river if it’s just to protect themselves.”
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In response to the coverage, he tweeted out his defiance. “Funny thing about all these bros b*tching about my scoop is that none have asked for an interview. They aren’t news people because they’re not even trying to find out anything new. They’re just mediocre keyboard warriors with bully pulpits that are too easy to ignore,” he said.