Is a video showing an ICE agent entering a classroom at California State University, San Bernardino, legitimate? No, that's not true. The clip was generated using AI. A Sora watermark appears several times, indicating it was created with the generative AI tool. There are no credible news reports that an ICE agent entered a California university classroom as part of an immigration raid or in search of a student.
The claim appeared in a January 19, 2026 video posted on TikTok account @eye.eat.ai (archived here). It opened with a caption on the video that read:
ICE Enters Class At Cal State University Looking For Student
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@eye.eat.ai.)
In the screenshot (pictured above) the watermark of the Sora tool from OpenAI (archived here) is visible on the upper left side of the frame.
Sora watermarks typically appear in several positions (e.g. upper left, lower right) during playback of AI-generated videos. This appears to be an effort to prevent the watermark from being removed through cropping and to ensure it remains visible when parts of the video are the same color as the watermark.
The video contains obvious glitches that reveal it is AI-generated. The officer's uniform has indecipherable lettering on the front and back, as the screenshots below show (red circle added by Lead Stories):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@eye.eat.ai.)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@eye.eat.ai.)
Had an ICE agent entered a classroom at California State University, San Bernardino, and been filmed and posted to social media by students, it would have drawn news coverage. A Lead Stories search of Google (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) found no reports of an ICE agent doing so.
