MS NOW’s Mohyeldin Hails Cartoon Attacking ICE, Idealizing ‘UK Justice’

It was an unmistakably invidious comparison. On Saturday's edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime, co-host Ayman Mohyeldin praised a political cartoon by liberal Mike Luckovich that glorified “UK Justice” — showing police leading away ex-Prince Andrew, who was formally stripped of his royal title in 2025 amid fallout from his Epstein associations, while depicting U.S. immigration enforcement as “Just ICE,” symbolized by a masked federal agent carrying off a small child.

MOHYELDIN: There was a very powerful cartoon from Mike Luckovich, which I thought was very impressive, because it was so simple and powerful. And on one hand, it shows in the UK, you see it there, what Justice looks like. And in the US, Just ICE, showing an ICE agent carrying a young girl. 

And I think it's a perfect encapsulation of where we are as a country, and what our law enforcement is out there doing versus what's happening overseas. 

The implication was clear: Britain holds the powerful accountable, while America targets the defenseless.

Mohyeldin's moral contrast collapses under scrutiny.

Ex-Prince Andrew was arrested in February 2026 on suspicion of misconduct in public office after documents released in the Epstein files suggested he shared confidential trade reports with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a U.K. trade envoy. He denies wrongdoing and remains under investigation. That is serious — and it warrants coverage.

But portraying Britain as a model of uncomplicated “justice” ignores its own contentious record, particularly when it comes to immigration and public dissent. In recent years, British police have aggressively managed anti-immigration demonstrations, including arrests outside asylum housing sites and heavy public-order deployments at large rallies. In one widely circulated incident, a police liaison officer confiscated a Union Jack from a teenage protester at an anti-immigration event, reportedly citing concerns about community tensions.

On the American side, the cartoon substitutes emotional symbolism for policy reality. ICE’s statutory mission is to enforce immigration law against individuals unlawfully present in the United States. It does not operate under a mandate to “target children.” Minors may become involved when families are apprehended or when custody determinations follow an adult’s arrest — controversial and complex processes — but the cartoon implies cruelty as policy rather than enforcement of law.

The broader European context makes the contrast even more selective.

Immigration is one of the most consequential political issues across Europe. In England and Wales, Muslims number 3.9 million, or 6.5 percent of the population according to the 2021 Census. Germany reports roughly 5.5 million Muslims, about 6.6 percent of its population. Across the European Union, 46.7 million residents — 10.4 percent — were born outside the EU as of January 2025. Earlier this year, Spain approved legal status for roughly 500,000 undocumented migrants under an extraordinary regularization program.

Senior Western leaders themselves have framed these trends as long-term structural challenges. At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that sustained mass migration flows and declining cultural confidence could weaken the cohesion necessary for Western democratic societies to endure. His remarks were not apocalyptic; they were strategic — cautioning against gradual erosion rather than sudden collapse.

That is the broader debate the cartoon flattens into a simplistic moral contrast.

Justice is complicated. So is immigration. So is the long arc of civilizational continuity. Reducing all three to a handcuffed ex-prince and a crying child may be powerful television. It is not serious analysis—but illustrative of MS NOW's hard-left bias.

Note: Mohyeldin is the same guy we caught in 2015 describing Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle's work in Iraq as "killing sprees."
 

MS NOW
The Weekend: Primetime
2/21/26
6:26 pm ET

MOHYELDIN: So let me ask you about the kind of pursuit of accountability in this country, because it seems that the general public feels that it is rare that people in power are going to be held accountable. 

I think we have a Reuters Ipsos poll that finds 86% strongly or somewhat agree that the Epstein files show powerful people are rarely held accountable. 

There was a very powerful cartoon from Mike Luckovich, which I thought was very impressive, because it was so simple and powerful. And on one hand, it shows in the UK, you see it there, what Justice looks like. And in the US, Just ICE, showing an ICE agent carrying a young girl. 

And I think it's a perfect encapsulation of where we are as a country, and what our law enforcement is out there doing versus what's happening overseas. 

Do you think accountability or justice for Epstein survivors is still real and possible at this moment? 

KRISTY GREENBERG: I think it's as real and possible as the fact that survivors continue to speak out and they continue to make it an issue. As much as Karoline Leavitt says, well, we're moving on, they're not moving on. They're continuing to demand answers, demand accountability. And there are still a lot of files that we are going through, but 2.5 million pages that we haven't seen. And they're being withheld on what I would view as very bogus claims of privilege and other explanations that aren't even clear for us. 

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