We\u2019ve seen this playbook before.<\/span><\/p>\n Hollywood went all-in on behalf of illegal immigration over the past decade. Documentaries. Feature films. TV show plots. The messaging proved consistent and one-sided.<\/span><\/p>\n We need open borders, even if they never said those words aloud.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, Hollywood is tag-teaming more specifically against ICE and any attempt to arrest illegal immigrants. And if what\u2019s past is prologue, reality will prove superior to Hollywood fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n Mike Coppola\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n First, a quick review of how aggressively Tinsel Town promoted the open-border madness under Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n Take Fox\u2019s hit series \u201cParty of Five.\u201d The show centered on a tight-knit family surviving after the loss of their parents. The 2020 reboot on Freeform followed a similar storyline, except the parents in question were deported to Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n And, yes, the messaging was as heavy as possible. Newsbusters dubbed the pilot episode pure \u201c<\/span>parody<\/span><\/a>,\u201d while the saga got a jump on the current anti-ICE mania.<\/span><\/p>\n HBO uncorked not one but <\/span>two open-borders documentaries<\/span><\/a> in 2019, and the titles spoke volumes \u2014 \u201cTorn Apart: Separated at the Border\u201d and \u201cLiberty: Mother of Exiles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n More examples? The final season of \u201cOrange Is the New Black\u201d <\/span>pushed family separation plot lines<\/span><\/a>, while the villain in the third \u201cDescendants\u201d film for kids tried to ban immigration. <\/span><\/p>\n Selena Gomez used her clout to promote the docuseries \u201c<\/span>Living Undocumented<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Charley Gallay\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Subtle? Hardly. And what happened next?<\/span><\/p>\n Donald Trump got re-elected by promising to slam the southern border shut. And when he did just that, by sheer coincidence, America celebrated its <\/span>lowest national murder rate in more than a century.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Hollywood\u2019s all-powerful messaging machine had failed. So why not try it again, but this time directly targeting ICE?<\/span><\/p>\n It started with \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d a cinematic love letter to violent revolutionaries. Leonardo DiCaprio played a stoner rebel cosplaying as an anti-ICE warrior. His fiery gal pal (Teyana Taylor) was the real deal, using any means necessary to free illegal immigrants and attack U.S. officials.<\/span><\/p>\n Films take much longer than TV shows to produce and release, but writer\/director Paul Thomas Anderson somehow grasped his industry\u2019s zeitgeist with Kreskin-like accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n Just days ago, Hollywood gave it the Best Picture Oscar.<\/span><\/p>\n Jeff Spicer\/Getty Images for HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n TV show productions happen faster, allowing small screen scribes to indoctrinate on demand. That allowed HBO\u2019s hit series \u201cThe Pitt\u201d to pick up the \u201cOBAA\u201d propaganda baton. A second season story arc follows an illegal immigrant being treated for a shoulder injury in the show\u2019s Pittsburgh emergency room.<\/span><\/p>\n The ICE agents are portrayed as aggressive and unfeeling, while patients and workers alike recoil at their presence.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: HBO Max\/The Pitt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Then, according to The Hollywood Reporter, <\/span>things get personal<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026at the end of the episode, nurse Jesse (Ned Brower) gets detained for stepping in to protect the patient when the ICE agents get too aggressive.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Over at CBS, the \u201cMatlock\u201d reboot <\/span>concocted its own anti-ICE narrative<\/span><\/a>. An episode dubbed \u201cCollateral,\u201d during the show\u2019s second season, finds Kathy Bates\u2019 character defending a client detained by ICE agents. That bleeds into a larger story with both the client and his family trying to stay in the country despite their illegal status.<\/span><\/p>\n The government\u2019s \u201cdeal\u201d is cruel, including a demand that the client pay up to $6 million in restitution with zero path to citizenship. Boo! Hiss!<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the just-released second season of \u201cDaredevil: Born Again\u201d tackles ICE in a less heavy-handed, but equally negative fashion. <\/span>The villainous Kingpin (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio), now the Big Apple\u2019s mayor, begins rounding up citizens without due process. That\u2019s been the Left\u2019s battle cry against ICE arrests across the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n Kristina Bumphrey\/Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n D\u2019Onofrio\u2019s character is an obvious stand-in for President Donald Trump, or at least the cartoonish version Hollywood holds dear.<\/span><\/p>\n The show\u2019s creative team has been coy about any real-world comparisons, but that may be a case of artists trying not to steamroll a show that hasn\u2019t lit up the ratings world upon its belated return.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDaredevil: Born Again\u201d co-star Michael Gandolfini didn\u2019t follow that advice. He <\/span>praised his show<\/span><\/a> for speaking, wait for it, truth to power.<\/span><\/p>\n We do a lot of safe things in film now. To do something risky that says something is rare.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n More shows will likely follow. <\/span>These stories aren\u2019t isolated incidents. Late-night TV hosts routinely rage against ICE efforts in their monologues. <\/span><\/p>\n NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d has done the same via its <\/span>Weekend Update faux news desk<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI get that ICE agents are people, allegedly, and they have a job to do. But at some point while you\u2019re pepper-spraying old ladies or shooting at a nurse, do you ever stop to ask yourself, \u2018Are we d*cks?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Stars have been raging against all things ICE from their favorite bully pulpits \u2014 <\/span>awards season stages<\/span><\/a>. \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d alum Natasha Rothwell expressed her feelings at the recent Spirit Awards:<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m gonna go to the prompter, but I just want to say, \u2018F*** ICE.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cICE Out\u201d buttons have been the <\/span>fashion accessory of the season<\/span><\/a> at these events, and stars have used their red carpet remarks to blast any attempt to uphold the law.<\/span><\/p>\n Just don\u2019t expect any shows reflecting heinous illegal immigrant murders, like the deaths of Laken Riley or Sheridan Gorman. Nor will a star or starlet name-drop either victim as they collect their new shiny trophies.<\/span><\/p>\n Their names won\u2019t be found on any chic Hollywood buttons, either.<\/span><\/p>\n The facts behind their tragic deaths are chilling and undeniable, but they\u2019re inconvenient to the narrative in play. And Hollywood is all about narratives, especially the fictional ones.<\/span><\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic, and editor of\u00a0HollywoodInToto.com<\/a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News\u2019 Big Hollywood. Follow him at\u00a0HollywoodInToto.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"HOLLYWOOD,](\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2266673336-864x576.jpg\")
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