ABC, CBS Blind to Biden Administration’s ‘Shell Game’ With Migrant Kids

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 6, 2021
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As the Biden administration released new images Thursday from inside a Border Patrol facility to show how they were allegedly getting a hand on the border crisis, Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar called them out for playing a “shell game” with migrant kids by just shuffling them around. Of course, Fox News, and surprisingly NBC Nightly News highlighted the administration’s attempted switcheroo. Meanwhile, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News pretended they were blind.

“Now, in March, this facility had 5,000 migrants inside. Average length of stay five days, sometimes 15. That's down to less than 24 hours. Major progress. Today, population about 1,300 here,” reported Fox News correspondent William La Jeunesse on Special Report, teeing up the game Biden was playing.

Adding: “Well, that's a little bit of an overstatement. Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat in Texas said they are playing a shell game. Why? Because some of those people were just transferred from the Border Patrol over to HHS facilities.”

Further, La Jeunesse used a drone to show how the “shell game” was being played inside one federal campus in Donna, Texas.

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