ABC anchor Martha Raddatz had two chances to do her job last weekend during the network’s flagship Sunday program This Week. In the course of interviewing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D), Raddatz asked many questions about the morality of deportations, immigrant labor, and the "fear" allegedly sweeping Southern California. But somehow, Raddatz managed to almost completely sidestep the most glaring fact on the ground: the Trump administration’s border policy was working.
She didn’t say a word about that success until the quiet comfort of the ABC News Live stream on Saturday, but that fact never made it to This Week.
On This Week, Raddatz grilled Bass, asking, “So they should not be deported?” and then pressing further: “A million undocumented?” Bass, who appeared more like an activist than a mayor, waved off the numbers and said, “Well, let me just tell you, what we need is comprehensive immigration reform.”
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