kilmer abrego garcia is an illegal alien from El Salvador who lived illegally in Maryland until being deported back to El Salvador. The way he was deported shouldn’t have happened, but that’s another story – and it doesn’t change the fact that he is an illegal from El Salvador.
So how have CNN and MSNBC defined him?
From Bill D’Agostino’s article at newsbusters.org:
This past week, the Trump administration revealed more incriminating evidence about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien recently deported to El Salvador despite a withholding of removal to that country. Yet liberal cable networks CNN and MSNBC have mostly ignored the latest developments, and instead have continued to obfuscate the truth about this so-called “Maryland man.”
Summary of Findings:
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- CNN and MSNBC referred to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “Maryland man” or similar terminology a total of 506 times in three weeks.
- Garcia was described as being from Maryland nearly five times more often than he was described as being from El Salvador.
- Only 10% of the 318 reports about Garcia on both networks included any mention that he was in the U.S. illegally.
- Talking heads on MSNBC were almost twice as likely to misrepresent Garcia’s immigration status as they were to describe it correctly.
The scariest part? There are people who watch CNN and MSNBC, and who rely on these venues for accurate reporting of the news.
That’s like relying on Donald Trump to provide personal humility.
