In a two-month span, only 14% of Fox News’ segments about immigration enforcement mentioned noncriminal migrants being detained

  • don@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Fox’s trumpaganda continues unabated? Huh. That sun thing. Still rising in the east, is it? Bit of a mystery, that.

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    6 months ago

    I wonder how they’re going to spin produce prices this fall. Can’t blame ICE raids, can’t blame immigrants, can’t blame climate change …

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    6 months ago

    It’s not suggesting the opposite, it’s just using a different definition of criminal.

    When you say “criminal,” you’re referring to someone who has committed and/or been convicted of committing a crime. When Fox News uses the word, they mean people with skin that’s more than 1.5 shades darker than Hulk Hogan’s.

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      6 months ago

      They pull the typical “ackschualllly” thing too and say “they’re all criminals, they came here illegally!

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        I think they’ve picked up enough legal residents to not take that at face value at this point. I have to presume they’re all here legally until proven otherwise in court.

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        6 months ago

        Kinda depends. Having crossed the border without authorization? Criminal offense. BUT, it seems when one is caught in the act, that’s only a civil offense. Overstaying your visa and the like? Civil offense.

        Legal stuff from the ACLU. Take that with a grain of salt, seem like old data.

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    6 months ago

    once again, that is the point. “only the bad ones” was never the goal. stop falling for cave entrance painted onto the sides of rocks

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    6 months ago

    My immigrant wife was under the impression that they were only deporting “bad guys”. I didn’t want to scare the shit out of her, but I pointed out that over 70% have no criminal record, and some have been straight up citizens. White people too! The horror.