In a story for Thursday’s NBC Today designed to put pressure on Republicans to reach a DACA immigration deal with Democrats, correspondent Jacob Soboroff lamented that the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants sometimes follow their deported parents back to Mexico. Buried within the three-minute report was the fact that the father of one such child was sent back after being convicted and imprisoned in the U.S. for drug trafficking.
“And now to the raging debate over immigration and a group that fight leaves in limbo – hundreds of thousands of children born here in the United States,” co-host Savannah Guthrie declared as she introduced the segment. Soboroff warned: “There are around 800,000 young immigrants who could be deported if a deal isn’t worked out in Washington soon. And a recent study says a quarter of them have U.S.-born kids.” He fretted: “So what happens to them if their parents get deported?”
“There are around 50,000 foreign-born students in Baja, California, 30,000 of them are in Tijuana. And the majority of those are U.S. citizens,” the reporter explained. He then talked to one boy from California in that situation:
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By conflating the deportation of an illegal immigrant who committed a drug crime with the broader DACA issue, NBC is essentially arguing that it’s wrong for anyone to be deported, no matter what the circumstances.
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