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‘You Hate America!’: How the ‘Caravan’ Story Exploded on the Right
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 05, 2018 08:44am |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | JEREMY W. PETERS |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 4, 2018 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It was the kind of story destined to take a dark turn through the conservative news media and grab President Trump’s attention: A vast horde of migrants was making its way through Mexico toward the United States, and no one was stopping them.
“Mysterious group deploys ‘caravan’ of illegal aliens headed for U.S. border,” warned Frontpage Mag, a site run by David Horowitz, a conservative commentator.
The narrative on the right this week, for example, mostly omitted that many people in the caravan planned to resettle in Mexico, not the United States. And it ignored how many of those who did intend to come here would probably go through the legal process of requesting asylum at a border checkpoint — something miles of new wall and battalions of additional border patrol would not have stopped. |
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