A Los Angeles Times reporter sparked intense backlash online after posting a video in which she offers advice to moms in Southern California on how to protect their illegal immigrant nannies from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Reporter Jenny Gold produced an 80-second clip featuring information and tips she gleaned from Kayla Shore, lead research manager at Hand in Hand, an organization that advises employers of domestic workers.
Among the tips offered to LA area moms on how to keep their cheap illegal employees safe from ICE raids is ... simply not having them work. Paying them to stay home.
That, and personally escorting them to bus stops to aid and abet them from being deported.
The Los Angeles Times posted the tutorial on its Instagram account.
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Great work, Ms. Gold. If you weren't aware, and clearly you are not, a reporter’s role is not to act as an advocate or advisor in a way that could be seen as instructing others to skirt legal accountability. Pretty shady stuff here.
"Limit risk where you can," Gold preaches. "A lot of nannies are taking a big risk by going to work right now."
The solution?
"Consider offering them paid leave. And if you can't, you might offer to accompany them to a bus stop or pay for a taxi to help them get to work safely."
The reporter reminds those who employ illegal aliens to clean their homes that "domestic workers are entitled to five days of paid sick leave."
Hmm ... Think that might only apply if they have documentation as employees. Not sure "undocumented" nannies would be privy to such a benefit.
An LA Times reporter has posted a video in which she coaches LA moms who hire illegal immigrant nannies on how to protect them from ICE and “limit risk” of an ICE encounter, including suggestions to give them “paid leave”, walk them to a bus stop, or call them a taxi to avoid…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 27, 2025
Backlash on social media to the LA Times video was swift.
"Pretty sick what liberal blue city moms will do to keep their illegal alien cheap labor," Tomi Lahren, host of "Tomi Lahren is Fearless" on Outkick, observed.
Richard Grenell, President Trump's Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, called out the executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.
"(Soon-Shiong) pays a reporter who undermines the rule of law in California. This is what an insurrection looks like," he wrote.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson asked, "Why is the LA Times — a supposed news outlet — giving advice on how to help illegal aliens continue breaking the law?"
Why would anyone trust any immigration reporting from the reporter or editors involved in this when they are this open about being activists against enforcement? https://t.co/3pWNDbc0xd
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 27, 2025
Taking a group of people whose first move in this country was to break the law, exploiting them for cheap childcare and home cleaning labor, then advising the people exploiting them on how to continue avoiding law enforcement is not something a respected newspaper outlet would or should do.
That's probably why the Los Angeles Times ran with it.
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