CNN, MSNBC Conflate Legal Asylum Seekers With Illegal Immigrants
By Brad Wilmouth | June 22, 2018 8:30 AM EDT
As the dominant media have been fixated for the past week on the Trump administration stepping up prosecutions against non-citizens who cross illegally into the U.S., resulting in parents being separated from children during detention as required by law, CNN and MSNBC both repeatedly conflated asylum seekers who legally got through the proper procedure with those who cross the border illegally first before pursuing asylum after being apprehended.
When DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen earlier this week called out the misreporting and insisted that legal asylum seekers are normally not detained or separated from their children, except in unusual circumstances, the liberal networks scoffed at her admonishment and then pivoted to complaining that the legal process of applying for asylum at ports of entry takes too long.
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2018/06/21/cnn-msnbc-conflate-legal-asylum-seekers-illegal-immigrants
