Overnight, Francisco Oropesa, the man who slaughtered a family of illegal Honduran immigrants in their home on Sunday was arrested and charged with five counts of murder and had a $5 million bond. But despite running full reports on the arrest and his heinous crime Wednesday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings refused to inform their viewers that Oropesa was also in the country illegally and had been deported four previous times.
The standout among the morning broadcast newscasts was NBC’s Today. While Sam Brock didn’t directly say Oropesa was an illegal immigrant, he did disclose the accused killer’s deportation history. “The arrest comes as new details emerge as a man deported from the U.S. four times,” he reported.
Brock also noted that Oropesa was known to police and had law enforcement as his door many times, including a domestic violence incident in June, 2022. He asked San Jacinto County Sherriff Greg Capers about it during a press conference Tuesday night.
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