Chris Hayes Cherrypicks Migrant Crime Stories In Failed Fake Debunking

MRC Latino | March 13, 2024
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CHRIS HAYES: And then this month, guess what happened? Manhattan prosecutors dropped the charges against Boada, you know why? They told the judge that further investigation proved that Boada, that guy, who had always professed his innocence, did not participate in the attack in question. They misidentified him. It wasn’t him. They got the wrong guy. Not him. He didn’t do it. Have you seen coverage of that? You think they’ve run 84 segments on Fox News about that? Of course by then, the man’s life is upended. The myth of migrant crime had already become a roar in the right-wing media machine, and they will do it over and over again. Whether it’s false rumors of a migrant caravan about to destroy America or the Guardian Angels live on Fox wailing on a man they claimed was a migrant thief when he was neither. He was an American from The Bronx who had not stolen anything. That happened last month. Remember all of this the next time you hear an immigration horror story out of Republicans. Aiming for fear, not facts.