Last Thursday, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy attacked Trump’s immigration policy in an episode portraying illegals as sympathetic victims of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In the episode, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” a diabetic illegal almost dies because she is too afraid to leave her house for medical care. She is apparently not afraid enough to return to her home country, however.
During a clinic shift, Dr. Benson Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) notices a diabetic patient named Mercedes Hernandez ((Veronica Diaz Carranza) has been a no-show for multiple appointments and has missed her prescription refills.
Breaking hospital rules, he and his colleague, Dr. Jules Millin (Adelaide Kane), stop by Hernandez’s home after work to check in on her.
They discover that Hernandez is in dire straits. Her foot is infected so badly that a necrotic toe falls off. Without immediate medical care, she could die. Hernandez panics when the doctors tell her that she needs to go to the hospital.
Kwan: Hey, Mercedes, um… …Your infection is getting worse. I have to call an ambulance.
Hernandez: No, please, I’m begging you.
Millin: We’ll alert the financial assistance program the second we admit you.
Hernandez: It’s not about the money.
Millin: If you don’t go, you could die.
Kwan: Okay? And we want to help you.
Hernandez: People saw immigration by the hospital. If I go, they could get me. My status was revoked a few months ago, and my friend’s brother, last week, ice surrounded his car, broke all his windows, and dragged him out by his feet. We still don’t know where they took him.
Kwan: I-I’m so sorry.
Hernandez: Our whole life is here. My son’s school, his soccer team, our church. We can’t be taken away from that. I can’t be taken away from him.
Kwan: Okay, I know you’re scared, but you need more help than we can give you here.
Millin: And we will do everything we can to keep you safe. We’ll even drive you ourselves.
Hernandez: I can’t. It’s too risky. Please.
Kwan calls his boss, Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson). She arrives at Hernandez’ home with a fully stocked ambulance. The doctors agree to work on Hernandez in the ambulance to avoid a trip to the hospital.
Hernandez’s little boy, Javi (Mateo Acevedo), fears that they are going to take his mother away forever. “No, you can’t take her like they took Tío Eddy,” he cries as the doctors carry her out the door. Anti-ICE propaganda always includes a crying child in the script.
In the ambulance, Bailey rails against the current U.S. policy of actually enforcing immigration laws.
Bailey: Alright, hand me a scalpel. Come on. I don’t have all night.
Kwan: I-I’m so sorry if we interrupted your dinner.
Bailey: You didn’t. We’re parents. We don’t have all night for a meal, either.
Kwan: So you’re not mad?
Bailey: Oh, I am mad. I’m outraged that it’s come to this. People so scared to leave their homes, they risk their lives? No, it’s cruel, it’s inhumane, and people are going to lose their lives because of it.
No one in the episode is outraged that Hernandez entered the country illegally and has continued to break U.S. laws for years without consequence. Portraying the desperate illegal as merely a sweet and loving single mom also dodges a harsh truth about current ICE arrests: the majority of illegals arrested this year have rap sheets.
Seventy percent of the 480,000 illegals arrested by the Department of Homeland Security since last January have criminal charges or convictions against them. Yet network dramas never portray ICE apprehending robbers, pedophiles and murderers. That goes against Hollywood narratives.
Grey’s Anatomy has been producing anti-ICE episodes since President’s Trump’s first term. Hollywood pushes the same open-borders narrative over and over again, but the American people have rejected it and support immigration enforcement.
