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MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff Disgusted by ‘Racist’ Slurs Used by Immigration Agents: ‘We Normally Don’t Say It On Television…’ 66%

By Sean James82%

8/1/2026, 5:55:54 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Indoctrination, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 31% saturation with 117 hits. Analysis detected 943 faulty-reasoning hits from 378 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54% and a BS Rank of 66% (8,739 of 25,269 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.40% of the article peer group.

MS NOW anchor Jacob Soboroff started his show off on Saturday by venting about the “disgusting” language ICE and border patrol agents used to describe illegal immigrants, according to newly released documents. 
Soboroff explained the texts were revealed because of a push by the ACLU in California. 
He ripped agents who referred to illegal immigrants as “bodies” in on exchange, with Soboroff reading the message that said “I think [border patrol agents] only know one way to operate  see bodies, chase bodies.” 
He then warned his viewers it got even worse. 
“Even more body camera footage and texts caught agents using racist language, slurs, to describe Latinos,” Soboroff said. 
“I want to warn you that the language you are about to hear is very offensive, it is disgusting. 
But I believe that it is important for you guys to hear and witness nonetheless.” 
MS NOW then had a technical difficulty and played the wrong clip. 
The camera cut back to Soboroff and he read the message. 
“The agent refers to a person as quote ‘wet.’ 
Wet is typically short for wetback. 
Which is a slur that ties back to Operation Wetback. 
We normally don’t say it on television, but you should know it, because that was the official and racist name for the 1954 deportation effort by the Dwight D. 
Eisenhower administration, which Donald Trump has lauded in the past and modeled this deportation effort after.” 
His gripes about the immigration agents comes after the Trump administration announced in July it had deported 356,389 people in the last year. 
Over on Fox News, Tomi Lahren said she was disappointed by those figures  she said MAGA fans wanted to see a lot more illegal immigrants get booted . 
Soboroff ended his segment by telling viewers they can thwart Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration by voting in the 2026 midterms. 
“All of this goes back to power. 
Who has the power and who gets the power, [and] what we do with the power. 
We the people,” he said. 
“On election day, we get to exercise it, we get to choose the kind of country that we want to be.” 
Confirmation Bias
13.8%
Anchoring Bias
1.6%
Availability Heuristic
2.6%
Representativeness Heuristic
7.7%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
14.6%
Loss Aversion
5.6%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
11.1%
Pessimism Bias
2.4%
Negativity Bias
31%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
9%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
9.3%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
7.7%
False Dilemma
5.6%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
9.5%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
28.8%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
10.3%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
11.6%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
14%
Quote-first Misdirection
5%
Biased Writer Voice
22.8%
Indoctrination
20.1%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
5.6%

378 words analyzed.

Analysis

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