‘Big Three’ Continue To Champion ‘America’s Most Famous Undocumented Immigrant’

Jeffrey Meyer | July 16, 2014
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Jose Antonio Vargas, a 31 year-old illegal immigrant, was detained by border patrol agents trying to board a plane from McAllen, Texas without proper documentation. Following his arrest, the “big three” networks did their best to promote his cause on Wednesday morning. ABC’s Good Morning America did the most to cheerlead for Vargas with reporter Jim Avila declaring him “America’s most famous undocumented immigrant” without ever referring to him as being in this country illegally. To their credit, both CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today correctly labeled Vargas as “illegally” living in the United States instead of using the politically correct “undocumented immigrant” term. Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. 

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