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Some Illegal Immigrant Children Bring Plan B in Case of Rape
It’s not unusual for immigrant children crossing illegally into the U.S. to do so with morning-after pills in their purses or pockets because their parents expect them to be raped during the dangerous journey, according to a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
“We see these kids getting abused on the Mexican side,” Agent Hector Garza (shown above, center) told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night. “We know that some of these female children that come across — their parents send them with Plan B medication because they are expected to be raped along the journey coming through Mexico and Central America.”
Garza was referring to the controversy that has erupted in recent weeks over immigrant children being temporarily separated by U.S. border officials from parents suspected of coming to this country illegally.
He said the controversy has obscured the reality that many illegal immigrants — along with drug cartels, terrorist groups and human traffickers — use children who aren’t theirs to defraud the U.S. asylum system and amnesty processes.
Ingraham hosted her show Tuesday night from the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego, where she decried false reports by mainstream media figures, politicians, and open-borders advocates claiming such children are being kept in horrible government facilities comparable to concentration and internment camps from the World War II era.
Hector said criminal cartels use the crisis to distract U.S. law enforcement from their activities. Officials also worry the children will be put at further risk if adults claiming to be their parents aren't...
50 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List
We the media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet—and he’s certainly given us plenty to write about. That’s probably why it’s so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and “lies.”
But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, we’ve largely excused our own unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. The truth is, formerly well-respected, top news organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that were unheard of just a couple of years ago.
Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories—without labeling them as opinions.
What’s worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we (sometimes) correct them. Or we blame Trump for why we’re getting so much wrong. It’s a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation.
So since nobody else has compiled an updated, extensive list of this kind, here are:
50 Notable Mistakes and Missteps in Major Media Reporting on Donald Trump
Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories—without labeling them as opinions.
What’s worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we (sometimes) correct them. Or we blame Trump for why we’re getting so much wrong. It’s a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation.
So since nobody else has compiled an updated, extensive list of this kind, here are:
50 Notable Mistakes and Missteps in Major Media Reporting on Donald Trump
1. Aug. 2016-Nov. 2016:
The New York Post published modeling photos of Trump’s wife Melania and reported they were taken in 1995. Various news outlets relied on that date to imply that Melania—an immigrant—had violated her visa status. But the media got the date wrong. Politico was among the news agencies that later issued a photo date correction.
2. Oct. 1, 2016:
The New York Times and other media widely suggested or implied that Trump had not paid income taxes for 18 years. Later, tax return pages leaked to MSNBC ultimately showed that Trump actually paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama.
3. Oct. 18, 2016:
In a Washington Post piece not labelled opinion or analysis, Stuart Rothenberg reported that Trump’s path to an electoral college victory was “nonexistent.”
4. Nov. 4, 2016:
USA Today misstated Melania Trump’s “arrival date from Slovenia” amid a flurry of reporting that questioned her immigration status from the mid-1990s.
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