“The left-wing media’s coverage of illegal alien crimes is indicative of their commitment to ideological goals and advocacy rather than journalism,” The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman said on Fox News at night. “And the reason that the media … omits key facts about the status of these immigrants is because it undermines their narrative that (1) any restriction on immigration is bad and unjust and (2) that illegal immigrants who come here are looking for a better life. If you report that this perpetrator [who allegedly raped the corpse of a man in a New York subway] was an illegal alien, it really helps galvanize public support for border enforcement, supporting law enforcement and getting illegal migrants out of here. The mainstream media has to prevent that so they have to omit the facts.”
