The Associated Press came under fire this week for its reporting on the death of a 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek.
Two illegal immigrants were arrested and charged with capital murder for the death of Joselyn, who investigators with the Houston Police Department say was raped and strangled to death after she had sneaked out of her home the night before.
The AP headline read: “2 men arrested in strangulation of 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek,” and the article identified the vermin as Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26.
What the news agency didn’t report is that they are both illegal immigrants from Venezuela and that one of them “crossed the border illegally less than a month before the shocking murder,” according to the New York Post.
Citing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources, the Post reported that Ramos crossed into El Paso, Texas, on May 28 and was released soon after his interaction with border agents. He reportedly claimed that he feared for his life if he was sent back to his home country — this being the coaching illegal immigrants receive from a host of nonprofit organizations that help migrants game the system. They are taxpayer-funded NPOs in many cases.
Martinez crossed the border at El Paso on March 14, taking all of three months to find himself arrested for the murder of a 12-year-old child.
As Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, a go-to source on the border, noted in a tweet, media outlets across the country, including many newspapers, rely on AP wires to cover stories like this.
Not only does AP not mention that both suspects are illegal aliens who were both recently caught & released at border, they don’t even mention that they are from Venezuela, which police publicly disclosed.
“2 men”.
Media across the country will use AP wires/reporting on this. https://t.co/pKyPiQ6aHu
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 21, 2024
With a growing number of cases involving illegal immigrants, including the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, the mother of five, and the rape of a 13-year-old girl in New York City, the impact of a wide-open southern border under President Joe Biden has the very real potential to impact the November election — but for the media.
NEW: In statement to @FoxNews, ICE confirms that the Ecuadorean illegal alien charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in NYC was caught by Border Patrol in Eagle Pass, TX in June 2021, then released into the U.S. w/ a future court date. A judge ordered him to be deported in… pic.twitter.com/eDMgiuESck
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 20, 2024
As proven in the 2020 election with Hunter Biden’s laptop, the U.S. media is not above censoring content they deem to be potentially harmful to Joe Biden.
Donald Trump once referred to the media as the “enemy of the people,” resulting in many in the industry getting on their moral high horse to condemn him. But it’s difficult to condone AP’s actions here.
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story from the social media platform X, beginning with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who called the AP “fundamentally dishonest.”
.@ap is fundamentally dishonest.
“2 men”
Entire story doesn’t mention that the murderers were ILLEGAL ALIENS.
This is not journalism. And hundreds of smaller outlets will run this word-for-word. https://t.co/oAbteP9VkT
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 21, 2024
It is bad enough the AP does not mention in the headline that both these men were here illegally. But to omit that information in the body of the story is a level of journalistic malpractice I could not have imagined.
They don’t even feel they have to pretend to provide relevant… https://t.co/bGdx6tkgCp
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) June 21, 2024
I have personal friends in the media, including one who works for @AP. They’re individually good people. But this right here is utterly revolting and lends credibility to the whole “enemy of the people” argument. https://t.co/zKIGNqwqLA
— Christian (@ChristianCamara) June 21, 2024
This is your reminder that you don’t hate the media nearly enough.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 21, 2024
No matter how much you hate the media, it isn’t enough.
— GTRxMan (@gtrxman) June 21, 2024
Who were these “men”? What were they doing here? Is this how they were assimilating?
— Laurie (@WaltsPrincesss) June 21, 2024
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