The Media Research Center just can’t stop sliming Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and it can’t stop being mad that people keep pointing out that Abrego Gracia was deported to an infamous supermax prison in El Salvador despite the fact that there was a court order specifically prohibiting the federal government from doing so. Geoffrey Dickens reprised his employer’s false conflation of Abrego Garcia’s wrongful arrest and the death of a woman by an illegal immigrant:
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen’s shameless trip to El Salvador, to bring back illegal immigrant and accused MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his Maryland constituents, prompted the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks to extend their exhaustive “mistakenly” deported “Maryland man” coverage.
From April 1 through the morning of April 23, ABC, CBS, NBC jammed their evening and morning shows with a total of 143 minutes, 24 seconds devoted to Abrego Garcia.
ABC spent the most time (52 minutes, 32 seconds) on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. CBS came in second with 49 minutes, 26 seconds. NBC aired 41 minutes, 45 seconds on the deported man’s case.
Over that same time period, another Maryland illegal immigration case — the trial and April 14 conviction of the murderer of Rachel Morin — was almost completely ignored by the networks.
So how much time did the networks devote to the Morin case?
A pathetic 12 seconds.
[…]Not even Rachel Morin’s mother’s condemnation of Sen. Van Hollen — in front of the White House press corps — could spike network coverage of her daughter’s tragic murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant.
However, Sen. Van Hollen’s political stunt did excite the networks.
Dickens failed to disclose that Morin’s death has nothing whatsoever with Abrego Garcia. He also did not explain his biased labeling — i.e., hyping Morin’s death as “tragic” while claiming thaf Van Hollen engaged in a “political stunt.”
Another post that day from Curtis Houck touted a claim by a fellow right-wing publication reporting that Abregbo Garcia “was driving an SUV in a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop ‘owned by a man who was himself deported after pleading guilty to smuggling illegal aliens in 2020.’” That was followed by Bill D’Agostino complaining that Arego Garcia’s lawyers “have sat for 28 friendly interviews on corporate media airwaves, or more than one per day,” going on to huff: “the leftist TV networks have pressed doggedly onward with his legal team’s free publicity tour. It looks like they feel too dug in to attempt an about-face.” But isn’t the MRC giving free coverage to Morin’s mother’s free publicity tour?
Clay Waters came out against due process in yet another April 24 post:
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour fretted over the “wrongful deportation” of the media’s favorite Maryland resident, illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to El Salvador, and suggested that it’s unconstitutional not to give every illegal immigrant a trial before deportation.
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour fretted over the “wrongful deportation” of the media’s favorite Maryland resident, illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to El Salvador, and suggested that it’s unconstitutional not to give every illegal immigrant a trial before deportation.
[…]Is PBS being sloppy or did they truly suggest every illegal immigrant (out of the millions in America now) really require a trial before being deported? Talk about gumming up the deportation works.
Yeah, we wouldn’t want to be “gumming up the deportation works” with questions about people’s rights, would we?
Jorge Bonilla found even more illegal immigrants to falsely conflate to Abego Garcia in an April 25 post, even toutinmg a Fox News report about it:
It happened again: an illegal alien, having settled in Maryland since crossing the border, committed a heinous and barbaric crime. And once again, the “Legacy Media” bite their collective tongues so as to avoid the indignity of having to report an inconvenient story.
[…]Another fine, upstanding “Maryland Man” doing “Maryland Man” things, allegedly. The above Fox News report is the only newscast mention of this horrific murder. There was absolutely NOTHING reported about this crime on ABC, CBS, NBC.
Bonilla then lectured:
And it is, in a sense, understandable. Covering this murder at the hands of an illegal alien would’ve meant taking time away from the 97-year-old tortoise who became a first time mother, or Pope Francis’ favorite gelateria. Viewers emerged knowing that the pope preferred lemon and mango gelatos, but not knowing a thing about this horrific crime. Speaking of Francis, the fierce open-borders advocate, it is ironic that his passing essentially buried further coverage of the travails of the original “Maryland Man”, confirmed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García, detained in El Salvador.
The reason this story goes uncovered is the same reason the media clammed up once it was known that Laken Riley’s murderer was an illegal alien. From Venezuela. Who crossed the border illegally as part of the Biden Border Surge. And who was affiliated to the ultraviolent Tren de Aragua. This story is counternarrative and, much to the chagrin of the media, proves Donald Trump right.
Again, Bonilla offered no evidence Abrego Garcia is actually in MS-13, and he refused to admit that this death, like that of Rachel Morin, has absolutely nothing to do with Abrego Garcia. And it seems that Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation is an inconvenient story for him.