By BILL D’AGOSTINO | MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
Last week, MRC released a study on how the broadcast networks fawned over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant, with sympathetic coverage.
From April 1 through the morning of April 15, ABC, NBC, and CBS dedicated a staggering 64 minutes, 57 seconds to the case. All the while, the networks ignored — ZERO minutes — the trial of Salvadoran illegal immigrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of Rachel Morin.
One key to the networks’ journalistic malfeasance lay in the attorney for the Morin family squarely blaming Biden’s immigration policies for their daughter’s death, noting that Martinez-Hernandez was caught at the border three separate times.
MRC’s latest study on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia coverage fiasco exposes the farm-league leftists at CNN and MSNBC, who, over three weeks, shamelessly peddled Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father” 506 times in 318 reports, dwarfing mentions of his Salvadoran origin by nearly fivefold.
All to paint Garcia as a sympathetic figure. The media believe in importing, not deporting, potential Democrat voters.
MRC’s analysis also found that MSNBC, in 161 stories, mustered only 11 mentions of Garcia’s illegal status (6.8%) and noted his Salvadoran roots in just 30% of reports (48 times), peddling the “Maryland man” fraud with gusto. CNN, barely less complicit, cited Garcia’s illegal status in just 21 of 157 segments (13.4%) and his Salvadoran nationality in 34% (54 times).
The cable networks largely ignored new allegations against Garcia, including a 2021 protective order filed by his wife, who accused him of punching and scratching her, leaving her bleeding, and a 2022 detention in Tennessee on suspicion of human trafficking. CNN mentioned the protective order in just 36% of 25 segments (9 times) and trafficking once (4%); MSNBC cited the protective order in 15% of reports (5 times) and trafficking once (3%).
I’m glad he is home. I wonder if he had to kill an American citizen to become a MS 13 Club member. Guess we’ll never know. Hope someone told him to not to drop the Soap.
There is ZERO Proof of Gang affiliation and He has ZERO Criminal Record!!
There is plenty of evidence. “ No criminal record.” He has been in at least 19 court actions and he has ms13 on his knuckles open your eyes. Even if he isn’t ms13 he came here illegally that should be enough. Quit watching legacy media.
Yeah, you’re right. I’m sure the MS-13 tattoos on his knuckles were just a mistake. You missed the pair of abuse complaints filed by his wife and upheld in court, complaints she is now denying exist. Your definition of zero and mine are a bit different. Cheers –
This is a perfect example Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes truth.” His gang affiliation is tattooed on his hands. The very fact that he is in the country ILLEGALLY is a criminal record in itself. He’s had plenty of due process by being in front of 17 judges, some of them twice. Get off the TDS train. Stop the Kilmar Abrego Garcia worship.
TT-You might want to do some research.
Why would he have “MS13” tattooed on his knuckles?
Democrats are nothing but pure trash
Everyone regardless of Citizenship status has a right to Due Process under the U.S. Constitution & rule of Law.
There is a separate court Teri – Immigration Court (how unfair, I bet Democrats thought it up)
There are conditions where illegals or immigrants can be deported w/out going to “Immigration Court” including:
1 – been deported before
2 – entered at an ILLEGAL entry point (no papers)
3 – been here less then 1 year
4 – missed an Immigration Court date.
So not “everyone” has a right to Due Process
Great slogan for your next protest placard though.
Interesting definition, that. Allow 10-15 million illegals into the country over the course of 4 years by ignoring the law and require the complete bells and whistles of legal battle to eject them. Current rate of ejection is in the neighborhood of 350,000/year to remove, which will take around 30 years. You willing to wait? Me neither.
OTOH, there is a quaint little legal doctrine called the fruit of the poisonous tree. It’s usually used to throw out cases where evidence is obtained by illegal means. Ought to apply here, when people invited into the country by illegal means can similarly be removed.
Nobody’s above the law, right? Cheers –
Why do we care about this Garcia man again? Seriously. If any of us ended up in jail or, heaven forbid, detained in a foreign prison because we broke the law some other place, nobody would care. There would be no news coverage, no tears, and no efforts to bring us back. As far as I can tell, this man that got deported, rightly or wrongly, is a lawless thug and isn’t even a US citizen. Therefore, to call him a “Maryland Man” is completely disingenuous. We still have millions of illegal immigrants inside the USA, and Trump has barely even scratched the surface of deporting them, yet our MSM is acting like we are rounding up all the Mexicans and putting them in internment camps or something stupid like that. That’s not even close to what is happening.
BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT GARCIA OR ANYONE ELSE WHOSE RIGHTS ARE DENIED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAW, THEN YOU… OR FRIEND … OR FAMILY… ANYBODY’S RIGHTS CAN BE VIOLATED AND THAT IS WHY YOU AND A L L OF US SHOULD DEEPLY CARE! WITHOUT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS WHICH IS YOUR RIGHT..YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE, ANYONE COULD ACCUSE OF A CRIME EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY BE COMPLETELY INNOCENT THE GOVT COULD THROW YOU IN PRISON OR GIVE YOU THE DEATH PENALTY!!
**The Trump Administration in Court Admitted they mistakenly Deported Garcia due to, “An Administrative Error”. If Garcia had been given His Due Process as is his right under the US Constitution, the Trump Administration would have realized Garcia was a Legal Resident of Maryland as was awarded Asylum from Venezuela by a Federal Court Judge! There is NO Evidence Garcia was involved in a gang Nor does he have a criminal record!
No shouting, please! Meanwhile, turn off CNN and use your brain if you have one.
Reality: If Abrego-Garcia were a white man, the leftists would have no sympathy for him. We wouldn’t hear one single word out of them. Thankfully, most people of color have already seen through these phony, condescending reptiles.
Get Your Facts Straight!! Garcia was from Venezuela NOT El Salvador. Secondly, Garcia was Granted Asylum from U.S. Federal Court & therefore a legal resident of Maryland! He has NO Criminal record! The Trump Administration and Fox Propaganda network is falsely claiming he’s a gang member. A Federal Judge stated there is no evidence Garcia is linked to any gangs, AND IN COURT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAWYERS TOLD THE JUDGE GARCIA SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DEPORTED AND IT WAS, “AN ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”. Furthermore, the Most Important Point is NO ONE SHOULD BE IMPRISONED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE! READ THE CONSTITUTION.
Are you a raving lunatic or just off meds, Teri? The simplest Wiki search reveals that Garcia was born in El Salvador. Everything else you say is now discredited as blah blah blah because you can’t get the first fact right.
God help this country with you and all your purple-haired, lip-pierced, tatted-butt friends suddenly being “experts” on all things Tren de Aragua.
Oh, and try easing back off of that caps lock for just a few minutes and go find some cbd gummies to calm your troubled, Alaska public school-rotted soul.
She is not correct about him being born in Venezuela. He was born in El Salvador. Everything else is verifiably true. It is interesting that you just go after her character instead of trying to respond to any of the information.
When the information is true all you have left is to insult. That is what Trump does. That is the cult like effect he is having on this country. Due process seems to just be a concept that the MAGA folks cannot get behind when it is their cult leader calling the shots.
MRAK does not mention any of those facts that she has pointed out. They do not call themselves out for not giving context or background. Suzanne once said she takes the road less traveled by in reference to the Robert Frost poem. In reality, she takes the road most traveled. She does it to fit her narrative to get readers. It is the same business model as CNN, MSNBC, FOX, OAN, etc.
Very nicely summed up!
Without due process huh Teri? Tell that to those held in prison without due process who happened to be present at the capitol during January 6th. The one man Ray Epps who was on camera many times telling people they needed to storm the capitol was let off without charges. Tell that to those who have been held as a suspected terrorist under the Patriot Act that was put into place after 911. Where was that same energy then? No, your pee brain can only focus on whatever “current thing” the news tells you to focus on in your collective efforts to hate the Orange Man.
A non citizen who was given way to much privilege is now out of our country and you rush to defend him over the actual citizens of this country and it is absolutely sickening. Get bent commie!
He was born & raised in El Salvador.
How about less anger & more reading comprehension.
(what school did you go to?)
An MS-13 gang leader. He’d rape your daughter and kill your son as part of the initiation ritual….even if they were Democrats.
In 1776 we had some problems with this behavior from our rulers. This individual was denied a day in court to defend himself. (Grievance 18 of the Declaration of Independence) No facts have been adjudicated, or evidence presented, witnesses presented supporting this claim before he was taken to another country by plane at our expense.(Grievance 19)We must accept the word of the executive to be the Truth. Also just take a gander at the Declaration of Independence and see how many grievances this administration is hitting. It is like they are Taking King George as a role model!