[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12114]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           LIBERAL NATIONAL MEDIA HELPED CAUSE BORDER CRISIS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the crisis at the border is a result 
of the President's allowing half a million illegal immigrants to stay 
in the country, and the national liberal media also are responsible for 
creating the crisis.
  The Media Research Center found that, from June 8 through July 1, 89 
percent of news stories on ABC, NBC, and CBS failed to mention that 
President Obama's policies have encouraged the surge of illegal minors 
at the border.
  Accuracy in Media editor, Roger Aronoff, pointed out that another 
story ignored by the media are the hundreds of thousands of adult 
illegal immigrants who have crossed the border since April.
  He also said that the media push a pro-amnesty agenda and have 
dropped the term ``illegal'' from their vocabulary, but there is a huge 
difference between legal and illegal immigrants. The national media 
should give the American people all of the facts, not tell them what to 
think.

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