To the liberal media, every thing was Trump’s fault. That’s precisely what CNN Information Central executed on Wednesday when the Mendoza household was coated in a section for shifting to Mexico as a result of President Trump was in workplace. This was the household’s method to fulfill a “self-deportation,” and Trump was the one guilty on CNN, quite than the daddy who got here in illegally.
Julio Mendoza was an unlawful immigrant from Mexico since he was 11, whereas his spouse, Sasha, and children had been U.S. residents residing in Pittsburgh. The Mendoza’s determined after seeing the information protection of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, who’s an unlawful immigrant arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that they need to transfer to Mexico. CNN took this story and ran with it.
CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez phrased their motive as Trump’s fault:
Petrified of President Donald Trump’s Immigration crackdown, Sasha, her husband Julio, and their three children are forsaking the life they constructed collectively…They determined to make the transfer collectively solely moments after Trump took workplace.
Alvarez confirmed a sample of asking inquiries to the Mendoza household,-specifically designed round how Trump had wronged them.
For instance, she requested if Trump’s second time period was “extra nerve wracking” for the household to give you that call to depart. That undoubtedly doesn’t really feel biased at all. To which, the husband responded with a sufferer mentality reply:
There aren’t any limits. There aren’t any limits on being a goal. The one most important concern is like he appears brown. He appears completely different. He would not communicate English. He’s the one. It doesn’t matter.
No, Julio, ICE simply upholds the legislation by arresting and deporting unlawful immigrants, which you had been.
What was hilarious was that CNN acknowledged the reality of immigration, but made it appear to be it was a foul thought. Alvarez requested Mendoza what he would say to individuals who declare he “got here to the U.S. illegally,” and “Why didn’t you do it the appropriate method?”
If CNN acknowledged the reality, why did they phrase it in a method that disrespected the legislation?
In his response, Mendoza whined: “Should you had been to be put in my scenario at my age to inform me do it the appropriate method. The entire course of just about takes about 15 to twenty years.”
Alverez wrapped up the pointed fingers sport when she said:
It’s one thing that the Trump administration is banking on. They’re calling them self-deportations. They’re taking to the airwaves with multimillion greenback advert campaigns and providing monetary incentives for individuals to depart…The uncertainty was sufficient to make this transfer, and what we realized, after all, on this reporting, Brianna, is it’s not simply undocumented immigrants doing it, but additionally their U.S. citizen spouses and youngsters.
Did CNN understand that it helps repair the issue when unlawful immigrants depart the nation? Clearly, nobody desires households to separate aside, however this household was in a troublesome scenario and made the selection to depart the nation. CNN used the story to tug on the heartstrings and fearmonger the general public on the ICE arrests and deportations as mistaken.
Click on right here for the transcript:
CNN Information Central
7/16/25
2:23 p.m. Jap(…)
BRIANNA KEILAR: There’s additionally plenty of immigrants who’re taking a look at this story and contemplating their very own conditions, and you’ve got been speaking to at least one household of combined standing who has been taking a look at it and determined, you understand what? We’ll truly depart the U.S. though solely one among them is definitely undocumented. Inform us about this.
PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: Yeah, this case was pivotal for this household. As quickly as they noticed it, they noticed themselves within the household of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, and so they determined to make the choice in very fast turnaround to maneuver to Mexico. This is their story.
[Cuts to video]
(…)
2:24:52 p.m. Jap
ALVAREZ: So you’re saying bye to the U.S. for good?
JULIO MENDOZA: For good. Yeah, for good.
ALVAREZ: Petrified of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, Sasha, her husband Julio, and their three children are forsaking the life they constructed collectively.
S. MENDOZA: What are you probably the most excited for in Mexico?
DAUGHTER: The pool.
S. MENDOZA: The pool?
DAUGHTER: And the seashore.
S. MENDOZA: The seashore.
ALVAREZ: Julio is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Sasha and their three kids are all U.S. residents. They determined to make the transfer collectively solely moments after Trump took workplace.
J. MENDOZA: It was an govt order being signed, and that was her name for us like, “What do you consider shifting to Mexico?” And I stated, “Actually, at this level, yeah, let’s do it.”
(…)
2:26:13 p.m. Jap
ALVAREZ: Julio crossed the U.S. southern border when he was 11 years previous, and he’s lived in Pittsburgh ever since.
S. MENDOZA: One among his first considerations after we talked about shifting is like, how am I going to look at the Steelers video games?
ALVAREZ: You’re Pittsburgh native for all intents and functions?
S. MENDOZA: Oh my God, yeah.
J. MENDOZA: Yeah.
ALVAREZ: What made Trump a second time period extra nerve wracking for you that to decide that you just needed to depart the nation?
J. MENDOZA: There aren’t any limits. There aren’t any limits on being a goal. The one most important concern is like he appears brown. He appears completely different. He doesn’t communicate English. He’s the one. It doesn’t matter.
ANDERSON COOPER: That’s the place issues stand tonight within the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia-
ALVAREZ: They had been confronted with their worst nightmare. When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a infamous mega jail in El Salvador.
S. MENDOZA: I can see myself in that. And I don’t need us to attend till we’re in the identical scenario.
ALVAREZ: There are individuals who will say, you got here to the U.S. illegally. Why didn’t you do it the appropriate method? What do you say to individuals?
J. MENDOZA: Should you had been to be put in my scenario at my age to inform me do it the appropriate method. The entire course of just about takes about 15 to twenty years. By that point, I do not assume my children or anybody’s children who’re ravenous or in a harmful scenario cannot wait 15-20 years so that you can come right here and begin working.
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2:29 p.m. Jap
[Cuts back to live]
ALVAREZ: Now, Sasha and Julio are settling in in Mexico, and they’re a part of a newly rising group of people who find themselves voluntarily departing the US. It is one thing that the Trump administration is banking on. They’re calling them self-deportations. They’re taking to the airwaves with multimillion greenback advert campaigns and providing monetary incentives for individuals to depart.
Now, Sasha and Julio opted to not take that supply, however for them, what was occurring within the U.S. was sufficient. The uncertainty was sufficient to make this transfer, and what we realized, after all, on this reporting, Brianna, is it is not simply undocumented immigrants doing it, but additionally their U.S. citizen spouses and youngsters.
KEILAR: Such nice reporting, Pricilla. Thanks for taking us behind the scenes there. Actually admire it.
