Supernytt’s episode is a systematic smear campaign against ICE under Trump’s presidency, filled with falsehoods, half-truths and insinuations.

NRK, like all other Norwegian media outlets, has provided extensive and critical coverage of Trump’s immigration policy and the immigration enforcement agency ICE.

But a Supernytt segment from 27 January 2026 gives this entire one-sided coverage a wholly new and serious dimension.

The episode is not merely a systematic smear campaign against ICE under Trump’s presidency; it is also filled with falsehoods, half-truths and insinuations.

The entire segment is nothing less than state-funded propaganda aimed at children. This is how NRK shapes the attitudes of the next generation, with emotional immigrant children, crying victims and one-sided demonisation of Trump.

I came across Supernytt’s episode entirely by chance on the state broadcaster’s website while investigating how Norwegian media cover ICE following a new poll showing sharply rising support for mass deportations among Americans.

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Even though the episode is five months old, it deserves to be exposed, particularly as NRK continues its partisan coverage of Trump’s America. I have also sent questions to NRK and Supernytt, which you can read at the end of this article.

What follows is a review of the Supernytt segment, exposing the propaganda full of falsehoods and half-truths. Being the sceptic that I am, I permit myself to doubt that children take the time to send videos to NRK asking the channel to talk about the “violent” ICE. It appears staged.

Why Is ICE in the United States So Violent?

In the introduction, we meet 12-year-old Aya, who asks whether NRK can talk about ICE and what is happening in the United States. Then comes 12-year-old Bledian, who asks why ICE is so violent. His question immediately sets the tone for the entire segment.

Ten-year-old Hoisianna also wants them to talk about ICE. NRK has clearly selected immigrant children to ask the questions, and the indoctrination appears planned down to the smallest detail.

Presenter Ane Norum Kvistad thanks the children and says: “It is clear that many of you have noticed that there are many demonstrations in the United States. People are talking a lot about ICE.”

Kvistad introduces presenter Kashayar Afshar, who proves that the dress code at the state broadcaster was thrown out with the bathwater long ago. Afshar talks about all the celebrities who have strongly criticised ICE.

Among others, he shows the Swedish artist Zara Larsson, who has written that she hates ICE.

They are thus using a European celebrity to demonstrate how intensely ICE is hated. From Sweden, of all countries, a nation desperately in need of precisely this kind of enforcement.

Supernytt then shows a clip of Manny, a crying young man at a city council meeting in Hillsboro, Oregon, who fears that ICE will take his parents because they have the wrong skin colour.

NRK Lies About What ICE Does

NRK then attempts to explain to children what ICE is, and does so by presenting a direct falsehood. Presenter Ane Norum Kvistad explains that ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That means they mainly work with two things: immigration, meaning people who move to the United States, and customs and things and packages that enter the country. You could say that ICE is a bit like a combination of police and border guards.

This is not true. ICE is not a border guard agency. Border control and customs at the border itself are the responsibility of CBP (Customs and Border Protection).

ICE was established to enforce immigration law inside the United States, namely by arresting and deporting people who are already present in the country illegally.

NRK deliberately conflates two entirely different agencies in order to give children a false impression of what ICE actually does.

In this way, they can then claim that many people in the United States have recently said that ICE is not doing its job properly and that “they use too much force”.

Norum Kvistad further explains that President Trump wants all those who are in the country illegally removed, and that he has now assigned this task to ICE.

When NRK says that Trump has given ICE this task, children are left with the impression that this is something new and unique under Trump. That is misleading.

ICE has had precisely this responsibility since the agency was established in 2003, including particularly aggressive enforcement under Obama, who among other things raided homes containing Latin American women and children.

Read more about Obama’s ICE operations further down in this article.

Supernytt then shows Manny again and says that his parents live in the United States but were not born there. They omit mentioning that they are in the country illegally.

ICE Raids Are Nothing New

They then reinforce the falsehoods about ICE and allow presenter Kashayar Afshar to say: “Now they are entering neighbourhoods and private homes to collect people, and that has caused many in the United States to become angry.”

Supernytt presents this as though it were something new and especially brutal under Trump. ICE has carried out operations in neighbourhoods and private homes for decades.

The story of Renee Good, who was shot by ICE agents, is then shown.

Afshar explains that ICE and Trump claim it was self-defence and that Renee Good attempted to run over an agent. But “many people believe this is not true”, he says. They have, after all, spoken to an expert.

And who could be better suited to explain to children what really happened than US expert Anders Tvegård? He says that both sides use precisely the clips they want in order to reinforce their own version of events.

The Supernytt episode was also produced only two weeks after the shooting, when the facts and evidence were still unclear.

The narrative has already been established for the children. Afshar repeats that Good was shot and killed by ICE before moving on to the story of Alex Pretti.

Supernytt reinforces the falsehood regarding what ICE’s job actually is. Presenter Kashayar Afshar says that Alex Pretti was killed by police who “normally protect America’s borders”.

When they tell children that both Good and Pretti were shot by police who should never have been there in the first place, it is clear what lesson Supernytt wants children to learn: ICE and Trump send police where they do not belong, and they kill innocent Americans.

Supernytt Plays the Race Card

Finally, Supernytt shows Manny’s speech from Greensboro. The boy cries uncontrollably and claims that ICE treats them like animals and that people condemn them because of their skin colour and the way they speak.

Norum Kvistad repeats Manny’s message that he and his family are being targeted because of their skin colour. This is yet another falsehood from the state broadcaster. ICE targets people because they are in the country illegally, not because of their skin colour.

To claim otherwise is pure race-card playing and emotional manipulation directed at children.

Almost 95 per cent of illegal immigrants in the United States are brown or black, primarily Latin Americans. According to the left-leaning broadcaster PBS, only 5 per cent of illegal immigrants in the United States come from Europe, Canada and Oceania.

Moreover, ICE is the most diverse agency in the United States, with 30 per cent Hispanic employees and 15 per cent black employees. Yet Norwegian media portray them as racist storm troopers.

Obama Targeted Women and Children

Supernytt tells children that ICE only began conducting raids in neighbourhoods and private homes after Trump became president. This false narrative is repeatedly circulated in Norwegian media. ICE was established in March 2003 under President George W. Bush and has conducted home operations for decades.

In NRK’s report “What Is the Immigration Police ICE Doing in Minnesota?”, US expert Erik Mustad stated that ICE previously focused primarily on protecting America’s borders, but now enters homes and neighbourhoods directly in order to deport people without lawful residence.

The Obama administration was particularly aggressive in such operations to deport illegal immigrants. Towards the end of his presidency, he targeted Central American families, typically young mothers with small children.

Watch the video at the bottom of this article about the 2016 raids, which left many illegal immigrant parents with children afraid to leave their homes.

Women and children, in other words. Not criminals. This makes Mustad’s statement to NRK even more absurd: “They operate quite aggressively, as we saw in Minneapolis yesterday.”

This type of falsehood and propaganda directed at adults is serious enough in itself. But when Supernytt deliberately produces a children’s programme like this, we are dealing with something on an entirely different level.

I have therefore sent questions to NRK and everyone who participated in the Supernytt episode. If you do not see a follow-up to this article, it means I have not received any reply.

Questions for NRK

Why do you believe it is appropriate to produce a news segment for children about such a polarising and complex subject as ICE and Trump’s immigration policy? Particularly when you portray ICE in such an extremely negative light?

Is it ethically defensible to use crying children and emotional stories to shape children’s views of American politics?

You devote considerable time to Manny, who claims that he and his family are targeted because of their skin colour. This is not fact-based. ICE targets individuals who are in the United States illegally. Moreover, around 95 per cent of all illegal immigrants in the United States are brown or black, and ICE is one of the most ethnically diverse federal agencies in the country. Why do you nevertheless place such emphasis on the racism narrative?

Why did you choose to use a statement from Swedish artist Zara Larsson, who lives in Sweden and is not even in the United States, when she says she “hates ICE”?

Were the questions from the children (Aya, Bledian and Hoisianna) spontaneous, or were they guided by NRK? How did you find these particular children who asked questions about the “violent” ICE?

You present it as something new that Trump has tasked ICE with deporting illegal immigrants. ICE has had this responsibility since the agency was established in March 2003 under George W. Bush. Why is it portrayed as though this is a new and extreme policy?

You repeatedly state that Renee Good “was shot and killed”, even though the case remains disputed and the ICE agent involved has been cleared of criminal liability. Why do you leave children with the impression that it was a deliberate killing?

You say that ICE is now entering neighbourhoods and private homes as though this were something entirely new. ICE has conducted such operations for decades. The Obama administration was particularly aggressive with home raids, including against Central American families and young mothers with children. Why is this not mentioned?