Bias by omission was highlighted Monday and Tuesday as CBS Evening News Plus and Fox News’s Hannity covered the 11 Iranians arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week, while ABC and NBC did not touch the subject on their lead morning and evening shows.
As the arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants across the country continue, criminals- many who pose a threat to the American people-have been detained by ICE. CBS Evening News Plus featured Homeland Security correspondent Nicole Sganga, who gave an in-depth rundown of three out of the 11 Iranian illegals, with alarming descriptions:
Three of these really stood out to me. ICE officials allege Ribvar Karimi is a former Iranian army sniper, and when federal agents arrested him near Atlanta, he was carrying get this, an Islamic Republic of Iran army identification card. Now, Yousef Mehridehno was arrested in central Mississippi just four months after he appeared on the National Counterterrorism Center Known or Suspected Terrorism Watchlist. And authorities say 56-year-old Mehran Makari Sahli is a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member with admitted connections to Hezbollah. He was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in Minneapolis, where he was sentenced to 15 months in prison formerly, and an immigration judge ordered him removed in June of 2022, but he remained in the U.S. Illegally. That is, until authorities took him in in the Saint Paul area on Sunday.
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