CNN sent a reporter to Dulles airport in Virginia Friday afternoon in order to cover live the reunification of an illegal immigrant mother and her son. The footage showed a mother greeting her son, whom she was separated from when she illegally crossed into America in May.
According to CNN, the woman is from El Salvador and has been waiting for her 7-year-old son to be returned to her after a month of separation because she came into the country illegally.
As the mother spoke with the shellshocked little boy, reporters swarmed and cameras rolled.
CNN’s reporter said, “[Brenda] and her son had crossed the border illegally, according to what her legal representation has told us. And she had her attorneys believe they were separated so that Brenda could face these criminal charges under President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy — these charges for illegal entry. Her attorneys telling me that never happened. But they say that the damage was done when the child was taken away from her mother.”
The CNN anchor called it “remarkable to see.”
CNN stayed on the shot of the reunification until the commercial break.
Last Friday, however, when president Trump brought parents who had their children killed by illegal immigrants to the White House to tell their stories, CNN refused to air the entire event, opting to instead cut to a panel.
The parents told heart-wrenching emotional stories about being separated from their children “permanently” and criticized how no one in media covered their stories.
Father Steve Ronnebeck lost his 21-year-old son Grant Ronnebeck to an illegal alien who shot him for a pack of cigarettes. Ronnebeck said “You don’t hear these stories, and some of our media won’t talk to you about it… I wish some of our media had the same integrity as our president, our vice president, Director [of ICE] Homan, all of you in law enforcement.”
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CNN cut away from the event soon after as host Brooke Baldwin asked why the parents were complaining about the news media before CNN went live to a Texas detention facility with a chyron that read, “Thousands of kids in limbo as Trump’s order sparks confusion.”
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