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‘Mayans M.C.:’ Dead Mexicans ‘A Bonus’ In 'This Administration'

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FX’s Mayans M.C. has been a wild card of issues as far as TV goes. We’ve jumped from wall jabs to racist border enforcers to abortion all within seven episodes. This latest week, however, gets us back to what’s really important: taking down Trump.
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'Chicago Med’ Doc to Illegal: ‘Sorry’ for ‘What's Going on Right Now'

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The three Chicago shows on NBC that now run back-to-back on Wednesday nights usually don’t get political in dialogue. Sometimes, though, as with so many shows these days, a storyline here and there creeps in and a slap is delivered to the current administration. In the October 17 episode of Chicago Med, the subject was immigration policy and, of course, deportation and the separation of families…
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CNN Touts Trump Voters Who Regret Supporting 'Monster,' Turning Dem

Twice this week on CNN's New Day show, co-host Alisyn Camerota has featured a set of former Donald Trump voters who now regret their vote -- calling him a "monster" and a "dictator" -- who plan on voting for Democrats for Congress. The Democratic National Committee could easily run the segments uncut instead of botherng to produce their own ads.
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Cuomo Rants About Trump Policy on Illegal Immigrant Families

On Monday night, CNN host Chris Cuomo spent the last four minutes of his show and even extending into the first few minutes of Don Lemon's show ranting against President Donald Trump's new policy dealing with illegal immigrant families detained on the border as he accused the administration of "lying" about family separation.
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Gobernador de Illinois señalado como 'antiinmigrante'

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La etiqueta de 'antiinmigrante', utilizada por los medios de comunicación liberales para desprestigiar a aquellos que hablan verdades incómodas sobre la inmigración ilegal o por simplemente apoyar el cumplimiento de las leyes de inmigración en Estados Unidos, nuevamente acaparó los titulares en Univisión y Telemundo, esta vez en respuesta a las palabras expresadas por el gobernador republicano de…
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Illinois Governor Tarred as 'Anti-Immigrant’ by Telemundo, Univision

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The ‘anti-immigrant’ label – typically used by liberal media outlets to tar those who either speak uncomfortable truths about illegal immigration or who simply support the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws – reared its ugly head again on Univision and Telemundo, this time as a result of Republican Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner speaking about the downside of illegal immigration in the city of…
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CNN Ignores Dem Candidate Seeming to Encourage Illegals to Vote

On Monday's CNN Newsroom, co-host Jim Sciutto and correspondent Kaylee Hartung seemed befuddled over why Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp accused his Democratic opponent, Stacey Abrams, of wanting non-citizens to vote illegally, all while ignoring recent video of her seeming to encourage just that.

NYT Sees GOP Using ‘Fear-Based Appeal’ Against Sanctuary Cities

As congressional elections loom, New York Times reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis revealed Monday that “Republicans Find an Unexpectedly Potent Line of Attack: Immigration.” (Unexpected to the Times, at least.) The text box: “Heart-rending images are countered with fear-laden appeals.” Davis’s Monday story tilted the playing field with tone and labeling choices: "But Republican candidates across…
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'View' Attacks Sasse Over Kavanaugh Vote: 'Did You Not Believe Her?'

Republican Senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse was on The View Monday to talk about his new book about combatting America’s partisan “tribalism." But the liberal hosts at the table mostly wanted to grill Sasse on his politics, from voting with the president the majority of the time, to voting to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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MSNBC Wrongly Hints Trump Started Making Children Appear in Court

On Friday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, as Ari Melber substitute hosted the show, he misleadingly gave the impression that President Donald Trump's administration were the ones who began the practice of requiring illegal immigrant children to appear alone in court, even though his own network has previously noted that the questionable practice has been going on for years under…

Study: Economic Boom Ignored as TV's Trump Coverage Hits 92% Negative

Over the summer, the broadcast networks continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a President in TV news history — 92 percent negative, vs. just eight percent positive. Nearly two-thirds of evening news coverage of the Trump presidency focused on five main topics: the Russia investigation; immigration policy; the Kavanaugh nomination; North Korea diplomacy;…
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Univisión, Telemundo condenan facilidades para “niños” indocumentados

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Kathleen Krumhansl
Univisión y Telemundo, las principales cadenas de televisión hispana, omitieron datos claves en sus recientes informes  sobre las instalaciones de detención para jóvenes indocumentados en Tornillo, Texas, comenzando por el hecho de que todos los llamados 'niños' en las instalaciones son en realidad adolescentes.
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CNN, MSNBC Promote Goodwin Spewing Over Right Wing Court

On Sunday afternoon, as Doris Kearns Goodwin appeared on both CNN and MSNBC to promote her new book, the longtime NBC presidential historian fretted that after Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, the U.S. Supreme Court will go to the right on abortion, voting rights, and other issues, and on CNN called the possibilities "worrisome."
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Univision, Telemundo Bash HHS Facility for Undocumented 'Kids'

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Kathleen Krumhansl
Top Hispanic television networks Univision and Telemundo omitted key facts in their recent reporting about temporary holding facilities for undocumented youth in Tornillo, Texas, beginning with the fact that all the so-called 'children' in the facility are actually teenagers.