CNN Conflating Legal Asylum Seekers With Illegal Immigrants
By Brad Wilmouth | July 26, 2018 1:07 PM EDT
On Thursday morning, CNN's New Day show displayed the latest classic example of why journalists should generally not be considered reliable sources of accurate information as the Cable News Network continued to conflate legal asylum seekers who go through the proper procedure with those who cross the border illegally and seek asylum when they are apprehended.
The three-hour show ran two segments to mark the court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to reunite illegal immigrant families who are eligible for reunification, and, in the first segment, Alisyn Camerota interviewed former Obama administration ICE acting director John Sandweg. The CNN host seemed flummoxed that crossing the border into the U.S. without permission is considered illegal even when asylum seekers do it. Camerota:
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