In a Tuesday morning report designed to tug at viewers’ heartstrings, NBC’s Today openly complained that people fleeing from communist countries had an easier path to getting asylum claims granted. They declared that the system was “arbitrary” when it came to which countries were greenlit for the easier route but, despite omitting the C-word, it was blatantly obvious what each country they listed off had in common.
In the midst of his report, correspondent Sam Brock noted: “It's clear most of the people we speak with are from Venezuela or a handful of other countries. That's partly because of how Title 42 is being applied, allowing asylum seekers from some countries but not from others.”
Speaking to Dr. Josiah Heyman, the University of Texas at El Paso’s Center for Inter-American and Border Studies director, Brock suggested it was “arbitrary which countries are getting a green light and which aren’t.”
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