On Friday, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was launched from custody in Tennessee. He returned to Maryland the place he was allowed to go to along with his household.
On Saturday, the unlawful immigrant truck driver — who allegedly killed three folks by making an unlawful u-turn in Florida — was denied bail and charged with three counts of vehicular murder and immigration violations.
Care to guess which story ABC, CBS and NBC selected to cowl and which one was utterly censored?
The case of the truck driver, who got here to the U.S. illegally in 2018 through the Southern border, obtained a industrial driver’s license (CDL) in California and Washington, failed an English take a look at and whose work authorization was rejected by the primary Trump administration, has YET to be coated on any of the printed night or morning exhibits.
Nonetheless, an unlawful immigrant case ABC, CBS and NBC can’t get sufficient of, is their favourite trigger celebre of the yr.
From Friday (August 22) night by way of Monday (August 26) morning ABC, CBS, NBC spent 17 minutes and 21 seconds on the alleged wife-beating, human-trafficking, MS-13 gang member.
So why the discrepancy?
If the printed networks correctly reported on the Florida truck crash story it might power them to confess that maybe the Trump administration was right in denying unlawful immigrants CDLs.
In truth, NewsBusters’s Clay Waters found that the media HATED Trump’s English proficiency order for truckers earlier than the lethal Florida crash.
Nonetheless, the Abrego-Garcia case allowed ABC, CBS and NBC to painting the Trump administration as merciless for separating Garcia from his loving household.
The next August 25 CBS Mornings report was typical of the overly-sympathetic tone of protection:
CORRESPONDENT CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ: Good morning. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia simply arrived right here in Baltimore to report back to the ICE Subject Workplace behind me and there’s a likelihood, Nate, that he may very well be taken into custody as soon as once more by Immigration officers. As you possibly can see, folks behind me have gathered to precise help for a Abrego Garcia on this newest chapter of a flash level in President Trump’s crackdown on unlawful immigration.
[Clip of Abrego-Garcia arrival]
This was the second Friday when Kilmar Abrego-Garcia reunited along with his household in Maryland after months in detention. The 30-year-old Salvadoran man who entered the nation illegally in 2011 was taken into ICE custody in early March. He was deported to El Salvador and transferred to a infamous mega jail generally known as CECOT regardless of a 2019 court docket order that prohibited officers from sending him to his house nation on account of persecution considerations.
In late March, the Justice Division admitted Abrego Garcia’s deportation was an administrative mistake. After a month of dispute, Abrego Garcia was introduced again to the U.S. in early June, however solely to face federal prices of human smuggling, stemming from a 2022 site visitors cease in Tennessee. He has pleaded not responsible.
PAM BONDI (U.S. Legal professional Common): He was a smuggler of people and youngsters and ladies.
GALVEZ: On Friday, a federal decide launched Abrego-Garcia from legal custody forward of a trial subsequent yr, however simply hours later, the Trump administration informed Abrego- Garcia, he may quickly be deported to Uganda. In a press release, Friday, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned she won’t cease combating till Abrego-Garcia is out of the U.S. however Maryland`s Governor demanded due course of.
GOV. WES MOORE (D-MD): I simply merely need a court docket and a decide to resolve, and never merely the President of the US or the Secretary of Homeland Safety, who’s who’s attempting to be decide, juror, prosecutor and executioner.
GALVEZ: Attorneys for Abrego Garcia say the Trump administration supplied their consumer a plea deal that might see him being despatched to Costa Rica after he completes his legal sentence right here within the U.S., and the legal professionals say that their consumer is being compelled, quote “to decide on between a responsible plea after which comparatively being protected or being renditioned to Uganda the place his security and liberty may very well be in danger.” Gayle.
CO-HOST GAYLE KING: Neither one appear to be nice selections.
For this examine MRC analysts appeared on the broadcast night (ABC World Information Tonight, CBS Night Information, NBC Nightly Information) and morning information exhibits (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, CBS Saturday Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Right this moment, NBC Sunday Right this moment) from August 17 by way of the morning of August 26.
