Univision and Telemundo, known for their advocacy for illegal aliens, have outdone themselves tonight. Both newscasts featured stories at the top depicting criminal illegal aliens with deportation orders detained by ICE as victims of ICE.
Watch as Univision D.C. correspondent Claudia Uceda elicits sympathy with her descriptions of the video of the takedown of David Perez-Teofani as “chilling”, “traumatic”, and “painful”:
DAVID PÉREZ-TEOFANI: I don’t owe anything.
CLAUDIA UCEDA: A chilling video.
PÉREZ-TEOFANI: I don’t owe anything. I work. I want to be with my family.
UCEDA: His pleas came after wanting to escape.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I come from work. Please. I’m coming from work. (UNINT) I want to be with my family. I’m not a criminal.
UCEDA: But that didn’t move the agents.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I’m not a criminal.
UCEDA: The video shows the traumatic and painful nature of the arrests.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: You’re hurting me.
It is at this point that Uceda breaks into her own video package in order to add the element of Perez-Teofani’s charges of sexual assault against a minor younger than 13 years of age, which Telemundo reports were dropped last year. Uceda then resumes her video package, which featured some soundbites from Perez-Teofani’s brother.
And, unbelievably, after eliciting sympathy for one criminally-accused illegal alien with a deportation order, Uceda proceeds to advocate for another: the illegal alien that was the subject of the Washington Post video. Uceda conveniently leaves out the part where he concussed an officer while resisting arrest, had a final order for deportation, and failed to appear in court for traffic offenses. Uceda wraps by disclosing that he resisted arrest, after an interview with the man’s family in Venezuela. Finally, she tied moped man with today’s arrestee, and one last stab at sympathy:
The video shows that the Venezuelan immigrant resisted arrest, just as another video today showed this immigrant wanting to escape and, when he saw himself defeated, he chose to scream.
Telemundo focused solely on the arrest of Perez-Teofani, flaunting close-up video of him screaming for help.
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Correspondent Javier Vega would follow up with an interview of Perez-Teofani’s wife, and of the Mexican consul in D.C. before tossing back to anchor Julio Vaqueiro, who said:
Well, the images are really disturbing.
Immigration advocacy is the bread and butter of Spanish-language media and always has been, because this is where their viewer base comes from and renews itself. Although open-borders advocacy is not surprising, it is troubling to watch networks twist themselves into pretzels in order to cast aliens with final deportation orders and criminal charges as victims of ICE.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective networks on Wednesday, August 20th, 2025:
NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO
8/20/25
6:32 PM
JULIO VAQUEIRO: Good afternoon. Today we begin in the capital of the United States with an image you’ll only see on Noticias Telemundo. It’s the arrest of a man at the hands of masked officers. The images are dramatic. It reflects the increase in operations in Washington, D.C., and the way many of them end in violence. The man, a Mexican immigrant, cries out for help. Authorities say he is guilty of serious crimes. Javier Vega reports.
JAVIER VEGA: A dramatic arrest in the heart of Washington, D.C. The detainee was a Mexican immigrant who, amid pleading and sobbing, identified himself to the cameras of Noticias Telemundo.
REPORTER: What’s your name? What’s your name?
DAVID PEREZ-TEOFANI: David Perez-Teofani.
REPORTER: Where are you from?
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I don’t owe anything.
REPORTER: Where are you from?
PEREZ-TEOFANI: Mexican. I’m coming from work.
REPORTER: Where are you from, David? Where are you from?
PEREZ-TEOFANI: Help me. Help me. I want to be in my country with my family. Please.
VEGA: Minutes earlier, a group of officers had stopped him in his car. David Pérez got out and exchanged words with the officers, three of whom had their faces covered. Part of the new federal operations in the capital. Suddenly, he made a move to evade them, which ended with him crashing to the asphalt, screaming in pain.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I don’t owe anything, I don’t owe anything.
VEG : His vehicle, a sedan with Virginia plates, had an Uber ID.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I-I didn’t do anything. There’s my car. Help me. The blue car is my car. My family has papers. My family and my children. Please.
VEGA: He was then placed in an unmarked patrol car. One of the agents was wearing an ICE vest, but the agency has not responded to Noticias Telemundo regarding the reasons for his arrest. This is the scene of the arrest, right in the tourist heart of Washington, D.C. This blue vehicle is the one driven by the driver who was detained. It’s about to be towed away, and behind it—I don’t know if you can see- dozens of National Guard members, uniformed military personnel, are patrolling this area of the capital. The wife of the detainee gave her exclusive reaction to Noticias Telemundo.
PEREZ-TEOFANI’S WIFE: I still can’t believe what’s happening. Why are they doing this, taking innocent people and mistreating them even more?
PEREZ-TEOFANI: Help me.
PEREZ-TEOFANI’S WIFE: I don’t know how they can do this and allow these people to go around harming entire families. They don’t—they don’t commit crimes.
VEGA: The Mexican consul in Washington, D.C., learned of the case from a video captured by Noticias Telemundo.
RODRIGO MENDIVIL: I wouldn’t comment on that particular case. We have to automatically investigate all the details.
VEGA: To later, as in other similar cases, he says, offer help and legal guidance to his family.
MENDIVIL: The first step is to identify the detention center where this person is being held.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I come from work.
VEGA: So far, David Pérez-Teofani has not been linked to a specific detention center in the public ICE system.
COWBOY: Javier Vega, in the capital of the United States. Javier. So far, what are the authorities saying about the case?
VEGA: Julio, at this hour, immigration—ICE—is confirming the identification and name of this immigrant. David Pérez-Teofani, as we saw him, Mexican. ICE says he crossed the border illegally three times and has a final deportation order. And they also emphasize that he faced charges of sexual assault against minors. However, we have also reviewed the records in the state of Virginia, and these cases were dismissed exactly one year ago. We are reviewing the reasons why. We heard his wife’s testimony there exclusively. We are also in contact with his family in Mexico, in this case with his mother, who says she is desperate for not knowing the exact whereabouts of her son at this time, Julio.
VAQUEIRO: Well, the images are really disturbing. Thanks, Javier Vega.
NOTICIERO UNIVISION
8/20/25
6:34 PM
ILIA CALDERÓN: A Latino immigrant was subdued by several federal agents during an operation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Hispanic man ended up on the ground while shouting that he owed nothing, but ICE claims he was arrested last year for sexual assault of a minor. Claudia Uceda has the latest from the capital.
DAVID PÉREZ-TEOFANI: I don’t owe anything.
CLAUDIA UCEDA: A chilling video.
PÉREZ-TEOFANI: I don’t owe anything. I work. I want to be with my family.
UCEDA: His pleas came after wanting to escape.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I come from work. Please. I’m coming from work. (UNINT) I want to be with my family. I’m not a criminal.
UCEDA: But that didn’t move the agents.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: I’m not a criminal.
UCEDA: The video shows the traumatic and painful nature of the arrests.
PEREZ-TEOFANI: You’re hurting me.
UCEDA: And while the arrest raised concerns, ICE later identified the immigrant as David Pérez-Teofani, of Mexican origin, with a deportation order and charged last year with sexual assault of a minor. The immigrant’s brother said:
EZEQUIEL PEREZ: We’ve worked in the capital of D.C. the whole time, and we’ve lived there, and all the—all this time. We’ve managed, we have everything right, in order, in order. We don’t owe anything.
UCEDA: On the street, more than one person is horrified. Images of federal agents arresting immigrants are seen all the time in the capital. Like the moment when Cristian Carias Torres was violently detained by ICE agents while he was working distributing food. An agent was injured in the operation. His family in Venezuela told Univision exclusively that they still don’t know where he is.
MARIBELLA TORRES: What we want is for them to return him alive, to return him healthy, because there’s a family here waiting for him. We have a worried mother who knows he’s been detained, but she doesn’t know what he’s going through.
UCEDA: The video shows that the Venezuelan immigrant resisted arrest, just as another video today showed this immigrant wanting to escape and, when he saw himself defeated, he chose to scream. In Washington, Claudia Uceda, Univision.
