NBC Ignores 100,000 Border Arrests, Terrified for Tequila Trade

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NBC Ignores 100,000 Border Arrests, Terrified for Tequila Trade
By Nicholas Fondacaro | April 1, 2019 9:16 PM EDT

Recently, U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimated that their apprehensions of illegal border crossers for the month of March easily surpassed 100,000. As CBS correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reported on the Evening News Monday, “That would be the highest one-month total in more than a decade.” But that fact drew yawns from NBC Nightly News where they were more terrified of a border shutdown disrupting shipments of tequila and tomatoes.

President Trump’s threat to shut down the southern border was the first topic NBC chose to cover and in classic NBC-fashion, they tried to discredit it. “The President, from a political perspective, is working to turn the conversation back to the border with the focus now on immigration, an issue that's important to him and his base,” claimed chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson.

When it came to the surge of people on the border, Jackson suggested that it was the Border Patrol doing that: “A surge to the south tonight with 750 more Border Patrol agents headed towards the Mexican border as the President pushes to shut it down altogether as early as this week, maybe.”
 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/04/01/nbc-ignores-100000-border-arrests-terrified-tequila-trade

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  they were more terrified of a border shutdown disrupting shipments of tequila and tomatoes.

As usual, NBC falls short on it's credibility in reporting the news.  Do they think the tequilla and tomato industries suffering are the only ones?  Anyone who knows anything about a shutdown knows the avacado industry will suffer also!  Why were they ignored!!