The most recent favored story of improper immigration activity has been centered on an Irish resident who has been ensconced in the welcoming enclave of Boston. He has been a decent and respectable citizen, as the media has it, and it is inhumane that he has been swept up in the oppressive ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids in an indiscriminate fashion.
Well, now we have a report that the man’s daughters want him returned to the Emerald Isle, but there is a plot twist that will sour your blue diamond marshmallows.
It has become such a common practice over the past year that the press has demanded I add a new category to my Townhall media column to cover the misreporting on ICE detention news. The press coverage trends in two directions: demonizing ICE agents or painting the detained individuals in a saintly light. But the throughline is in avoiding the disqualifying details.
We are familiar with the “Maryland Man” coverage, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a lengthy legal jacket, but that somehow never displayed evidence of paternal behavior. We never saw family photos from a theme park or him coaching Little League games, but his domestic abuse charges and human trafficking history were certainly glossed over. And since then, there have been regular deliveries of other similarly incomplete stories, where the detainees are lauded, and their criminality fogged over.
This was how @CNN described:
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) February 17, 2026
- A man with 3 DWI convictions
- The pastor who is an illegal in this nation for two decades
- The "journalist" who obstructed police activity and had been an illegal since 2004
"Pillars of the community" pic.twitter.com/5CA6RL7HEo
Beyond sounding like a pedantic joke (“A fireman, a priest, and a journalist walk into a bar…”), CNN delivered lengthy biographies on each case, with maybe a solitary sentence dedicated to their crimes. It has been the pattern seen for a year from the press, and with tiresome regularity; the rush for sympathy involves avoiding basic research. And the latest case of this media model has blown up in their faces like a short-fuse Roman candle, yet again.
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For a week now the press has excitedly reported on an Irish resident errantly detained by ICE. We were told he is a legal resident with proper working documents, who has been held for months in horrific conditions. Adding to the energy of the reports was the reporters' being convinced that this being a white individual would tilt the opinion of the intolerant, pro-deport crowd. But as always, the insistence that this has all been about attacking those with brown skin gets derailed by facts that are black and white.
Seamus Culleton was picked up by ICE, and we heard that he is married, a business owner, and has been in the country for close to two decades, yet despite this, he has been detained for months while being held in concentration camp conditions. And thus begins the act of shucking this Vidalia of a news story.
Seamus was not here on a work document. He arrived on a 90-day visitor visa. That visa expired over 15 years ago. In that time, he somehow managed to get married, purchase a home, and even start his own business. Yet in a decade-and-a-half, applying for legal status was beyond his skill set. That marriage appears to have taken place when Trump first came to office, a bid to achieve some level of legality.
The next question is how we came to know about this man and the oppressive conditions he is in. It was because Culleton called a radio station and detailed his horrors. Let’s explore, shall we? If he is held in such oppression, how did he have phone access, after all? Also curious, how was it that he just happened to have the phone number of a radio station on him – a station in Ireland, no less?
Then, we hear how he has refused the option of being sent back to Ireland, opting instead to plead his case and remain stateside. I’m sorry, would it not make more sense to at least go back to Dublin, given that country is not exactly a third-world sump hole, rather than remaining in what he described as inhumane conditions? That became revealed, unfortunately for the press.
Seamus has multiple outstanding bench warrants back in his homeland, for drugs and other issues. Yet there he was, on the air in Ireland, pleading for the Irish government to step in and help his cause…to remain in the U.S. And now his daughters have stepped in to say he should return to Ireland. How’s that?
He's the Irish illegal immigrant who claims he's a victim of Trump's ICE crackdown - but now his twin daughters back home say he abandoned them as toddlers and should return to face drug charges https://t.co/nBTjXIBov8
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) February 14, 2026
Oh, now, so we learn that along with being an illegal resident, and a man with numerous criminal charges, which he seemingly fled when coming to this country, he is also a deadbeat father “to brog.” I think we will see that this sympathy tale will disappear from the news cycle faster than the foam in a pint of Guinness.
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