The three broadcast networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS took different approaches to the news that more Columbia University students have been arrested, but none of them were good. NBC portrayed visa enforcement as a “crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests,” while CBS ignored the reason for the arrest, and ABC ignored her previous protest-related arrest and, like the others, that this is not the first time she has had visa issues.
Friday’s edition of NBC Nightly News was also the most in-depth as Emilie Ikeda began, “Tonight President Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests ramping up, immigration agents taking a second student involved in the Columbia university demonstrations into custody. The Department of Homeland Security says, “Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from West Bank was arrested for overstaying her expired F-1 student visa.’”
In an important detail that was simply tacked on, Ikeda also noted how “she had also been arrested last spring ‘for her involvement in pro-Hamas protests.’”
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. Nick Kangadis
. steve malzberg
