The public has at least for now been deprived of yet more sob stories from illegal aliens desperate to stay in the United States. How will we ever recover?
An insubordinate content creator at CBS’s 60 Minutes is throwing a public fit because a video segment of hers was apparently spiked at the last minute by her boss, Bari Weiss. The content creator, Sharyn Alfonsi, sent a testy letter to her colleagues complaining that Weiss yanked the segment on illegals who were deported to that prison in El Salvador. “Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” she wrote in the letter, which was then conveniently shared with a New York Times reporter. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now — after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
Weiss released her own statement to say the segment would eventually air at some later date and suggested that it currently lacked “sufficient context” or was “missing critical voices.” Citing anonymous sources, the Times said Weiss took issue with Alfonsi’s calling illegal immigrants “migrants” and also said that a high-ranking Trump administration official should be interviewed for the piece.
All of this for what is destined to be an exceedingly unoriginal TV story. Without having seen it, here’s what the segment will entail: several foreigners, who are all but certain to have immigration lawyers actively trying to re-import them to the U.S., and who swear that they were tortured as a result of President Trump removing them from the country.
None of this is new. The New York Times itself ran this story more than a month ago.
“‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison,” read the Nov. 8 headline. And then four weeks later, the Times adapted that story for its The Daily podcast. (“Trump Sent Them to a Notorious Prison. Torture Followed.”)
We get it. People who risk everything to get this country really want to stay. They don’t like being told to go home, let alone being forced to go somewhere else that isn’t home. You’d hope no one is abused in the process, but 1) they broke the law by being here, and 2) they were told to leave and they didn’t. That’s not to mention that the administration claims every alien deported to that prison is a gang affiliate or a known violent criminal or both.
Regardless, armies of attorneys exist in America to either prevent a single alien from being deported or to fight for their return if they are. Our dying media like 60 Minutes then dutifully repeat their graphic claims as if they must be true and unaccompanied by the very obvious motives these people have in alleging mistreatment.
If CBS really wanted to show us something new on immigration, the outlet would interview every Democrat leader and get a specific answer to just three questions: 1) Can you name a single illegal alien you would deport immediately? 2) What should be the limit on how many foreigners we allow into the country each year? 3) Should it be a deportable offense for illegal aliens to be found to have received any form of welfare in the form of subsidized housing, health care, and food assistance?
There’s a story 60 Minutes should rush to air.
