After riots at a California marijuana farm where ICE conducted an operation arresting 200 illegal immigrants, Los Angeles correspondent Carter Evans repeated on Friday’s CBS Evening News what someone he interviewed about the matter told him, mainly that “she feels like pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target.”
The media’s desire to base journalistic objectivity around what they view as truth instead of neutrality only seems to apply when they can call Republicans untruthful. As Evans began, he ran off Homeland Security’s justifications, “As for the raids in Camarillo and another nearby cannabis farm, the Department of Homeland Security claims it entered with search warrants, rescued at least ten migrant children from potential exploitation, and arrested what it described as 200 illegal aliens, while more than 500 rioters attempted to disrupt operations. The standoff lasted for hours, well into the night.”
However, Evans was more interested in creating a sob story than challenging his interviewees’ assertions, “Several workers hid in the farm, emerging this morning, including Jesus. Jennifer Martinez is his niece.”
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