Posted on 06/22/2018 12:44:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Friday hit back against the news media for not covering what he called “permanent separations,” referring to victims who were killed in the United States by undocumented immigrants.
“These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. The word you have to think about is 'permanently,'" Trump said at an immigration event at the White House. "You hear the other side, you never hear this side."
Friday's event featured testimony from family members whose relatives were killed by undocumented immigrants. They stood on the stage holding up pictures of their loved ones, which appeared to be signed by Trump, and shared their stories.
"These are the stories that the Democrats and people who are weak on immigration, they don't want to discuss," Trump said. "No major networks sent cameras to their homes or displayed the images of their incredible loved ones across the nightly news."
"They don't talk about the death and destruction caused by people who shouldn't be here," Trump added.
The event comes as the Trump administration has faced intense outrage and wall-to-wall media coverage for it’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has led thousands of immigrant children to be separated from their parents at the border while the adults face prosecution.
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