Vice President Kamala Harris will meet former President Donald Trump tomorrow night for a debate hosted by ABC News, and she could not have chosen a friendlier forum for their first encounter. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that, of the Big Three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight has been the most positive towards Harris and the most hostile to Trump. MRC analysts reviewed all 100 campaign stories that aired on ABC’s World News Tonight from the day Harris entered the race (July 21) through September 6, including weekends. Our analysts found 25 clearly positive statements about Harris from reporters, anchors, voters or other non-partisan sources, with zero negative statements — none. That computes to a gravity-defying 100% positive spin score for the Vice President. As for Trump, our analysts found just five clearly positive comments, vs. 66 negative statements, for a dismal 7 percent positive (93% negative) spin score. Our measure of good press/bad press omits partisan comments, as well as “horse race” assessments about the candidates’ poll standings and prospects. So while viewers of ABC’s World News Tonight certainly heard negative comments about Harris during these past six-and-a-half weeks, all of them were from Trump, his campaign team, or other Republicans — never from reporters or nonpartisan sources. At the same time, while our spin score similarly excludes all Democratic soundbites about the Republican nominee, ABC’s reporters and anchors either jumped in to criticize Trump themselves, or broadcast negative comments from non-partisan sources to impart a heavily negative spin to the former President’s coverage. [For more on the methodology, scroll to the end of this article.] During these same weeks, both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News also delivered highly positive coverage for Harris, and mostly negative coverage for Trump, yet not as extreme as we found with ABC’s World News Tonight. Employing the same methodology, coverage of Harris was 94% positive on CBS, and 71% positive on NBC — historically good press, but not as good as the 100% positive press she received on ABC. As for Trump, his coverage was 77% negative on CBS, and 86% negative on NBC — extremely hostile, but not as dreadful as the whopping 93% negative coverage he received on ABC. Our study also found other ways that ABC’s flagship newscast aided the Democratic nominee:   ■ ABC’s World News Tonight never labeled Harris as “liberal.” Both CBS and NBC correspondents confirmed Harris’s ideology early on in her campaign. Back on July 21, CBS’s Weijia Jiang said Harris “has a liberal voting record that could be balanced with a more moderate VP.” Three days later, NBC’s Liz Kreutz identified Harris as a “self-described progressive prosecutor.” But as of September 4, ABC’s correspondents had yet to call Harris either a “liberal” or a “progressive.” Instead eight stories included brief clips of Republicans (usually former President Trump) calling out Harris’s liberal record. ABC’s reporters and anchors also never criticized Harris’s handling of issues such as the economy or the border. While there were few criticisms of Harris’s policies and ideology on CBS and NBC, they weren’t entirely absent. “Harris is providing few details on her plans, which one nonpartisan group says will add $1.7 trillion to the deficit,” NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez told viewers back on August 17. “And both Republican and Democratic economists have argued against government price controls.”   ■ Unlike ABC, both CBS and NBC occasionally showed voters who oppose Harris. Even during the early, highly-positive honeymoon coverage of Harris back in July, evening news viewers occasionally saw voters who didn’t like the Vice President. Reporting in Georgia back on July 30, NBC’s Peter Alexander interviewed a voter, Ben Wilson, who “blames both Biden and Harris for high prices.” Wilson said he was upset by “everything from gas prices to, you know, eggs, the cost of living, everything.” More recently, Nightly News viewers on September 4 saw a voter in New Hampshire declaring his preference for Trump: “Harris will be four more years of misery.” Yet no such voters were ever included in ABC’s evening news coverage, although they seemed to have no objection to showing pro-Harris voters, such as the fangirl who popped up on the August 18 World News Tonight: “We’re so excited about the Harris/Walz ticket and the hope and the joy.” CBS and NBC both found critics of Harris’s tenure as a prosecutor. “Some progressives called out Harris for being too tough on crime, but conservatives criticized her for being too lenient,” CBS’s Nikole Killion told viewers in an August 22 profile of the new Democratic nominee. No such criticism — from either the right or the left — was shown on ABC’s World News Tonight.   ■ Promoting Trump’s controversies, hiding Harris’s. Back on August 3, both CBS and NBC briefly let their viewers know that Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, had committed adultery during his first marriage. Correspondent Natalie Brand explained on the CBS Weekend News: “Emhoff in a statement obtained by CBS News said that during his first marriage, he went through some tough times on account of his actions and took responsibility in the years since.” Neither network treated Emhoff’s transgression as a big deal, yet ABC didn’t offer up even a second of coverage to this negative story about the Vice President’s husband. Instead, ABC’s Selina Wang that night explained how Harris had “officially lock[ed] up enough votes to become the presumptive Democratic nominee,” and talked about her ongoing search for a running mate. World News Tonight certainly wasn’t shy about giving oxygen to what they presented as Trump controversies. The network talked about Trump’s comment questioning Harris’s race in four different stories, for a combined 3 minutes, 48 seconds of coverage. ABC offered up three different stories (3 minutes, 30 seconds) talking about the kerfuffle following Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate those killed in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. And the network hit Trump on his comments contrasting the Medal of Honor with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on two different nights, tallying up to a total of three minutes, 14 seconds of coverage. “Tonight, Trump still facing criticism....” ABC’s Rachel Scott touted on August 19, three full days after her newscast’s initial coverage of the remark. ABC provided no such scrutiny for Harris’s flubs. Prior to the Vice President’s August 29 interview with CNN, ABC had only allowed six seconds to the idea that she was ducking tough questions. World News Tonight devoted less than a minute of airtime (59 seconds) to the fact that Harris became the Democratic nominee without facing voters in any primary or caucus. Yet on eight different occasions, the network toasted the “historic” nature of Harris as the “first black woman and first Asian American,” as correspondent Selina Wang celebrated back on July 21. “The final night of the Democratic National Convention, and it will be an historic one,” ABC’s David Muir echoed a month later, on August 22. “Vice President Kamala Harris, the first black woman and Asian American set to accept a major party’s nomination for President.” +++++ Tomorrow night’s debate will be moderated by David Muir, the weekday anchor of World News Tonight, and Linsey Davis, who anchors the Sunday edition of the same broadcast. Muir holds the title of “Managing Editor,” which means he can review all of the field reports used on his newscast and assure that they are fair to both sides. Based on the record of the past six and a half weeks, Muir’s newscast could hardly be more one-sided in its approach to the 2024 presidential campaign. It does not augur well for the potential fairness of tomorrow’s debate. METHODOLOGY: To determine the spin of news coverage, our analysts tallied all explicitly evaluative statements about each candidate from either reporters, anchors or non-partisan sources such as experts or voters. Evaluations from partisan sources, as well as neutral statements, were not included. As we did in 2016 and 2020, we separated personal evaluations of each candidate from statements about their prospects in the campaign horse race (i.e., standings in the polls, chances to win, etc.). While such comments can have an effect on voters (creating a bandwagon effect for those seen as winning, or demoralizing the supports of those portrayed as losing), they are not “good press” or “bad press” as understood by media scholars as far back as Michael Robinson’s groundbreaking research on the 1980 presidential campaign.  

Shark Tank star Mark Cuban mounted an absurd defense of Vice President Kamala Harris on CNBC, claiming against all evidence that Harris was a moderate.  This was Cuban’s slavish defense of Harris during the Sept. 5 edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box. When anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin mentioned that previous guests had pegged Harris as a progressive, Cuban objected, calling Harris “pro-business” and claiming that “she’s going center 100%.” The DEI-obsessed billionaire doubled down on this point later in the interview, telling Sorkin, “She's open-minded, she's not an ideologue. She wants to do what is best for business.” The Dallas Mavericks owner proudly provided Sorkin with an example of Harris’s so-called pro-business approach: she would only increase the capital gains tax from 20% to 28%, less than the 33% envisioned by President Joe Biden.  Cuban suggested that 33% was overambitious. “The higher the capital gains tax, the more difficult it is to invest in riskier investments. And the people who have the hardest time getting risk capital are women, people of color [and] young kids that are coming out of colleges, exactly the people you want to take risks on. The higher the cap gains rate, the harder it is to invest in them for obvious reasons,” Cuban commented. It is a day ending in “y” and Cuban, a DEI advocate, has once again implied support for racial and gender discrimination. Taking Cuban at his word, “pro-business” Harris is prepared to aggressively raise taxes, exacerbating the problem he identifies.  Oops. Harris is far from pro-business. To make this claim, Cuban had to ignore, or dismiss, Harris’s major 2024 proposals and the entirety of her 2020 presidential campaign.  First, Harris supports energy policies that will harm consumers and the economy by cutting off access to cheap energy. Her radical record on energy was highly praised by The New York Times in a June 22 article. The article covered her staunch opposition to fracking, a method of natural gas extraction that has helped make the nation energy-independent.  The Times article also mentioned her support for making energy more expensive through a carbon tax. Moreover, the article noted that she was an original sponsor of the radical and wasteful “Green New Deal” and even tried to stop offshore fracking as California’s attorney general.   But wait, there’s more. Harris’s anti-business record also includes support for reversing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and massively increasing the corporate income tax from 21% to 35%. She backed taxing stock market trades to help pay for her expensive, government spending wish list. Just this year, Harris embraced radical anti-business ideas such as price controls (which Cuban ignored) and taxing unrealized capital gains. On this point, Cuban admitted the idiocy of the policy.  “What I told them was that if you tax unrealized gains, you're going to kill the stock market,” Cuban said in the same CNBC interview. He went on to beg viewers to trust him that Harris wouldn’t try to do this, before adding a mile-wide caveat, “I'm not going to speak for the Vice President, she makes the final decision.” Moreover, Cuban is no moderate or centrist. Cuban is a fanatical advocate for radical leftist diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. After publicly admitting on Feb. 1 to engaging in DEI racial discrimination, Cuban was rebuked by Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), who called his behavior “illegal.”  Conservatives are under attack. Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report fairly on how Bidenomics is crippling the American economy.

A new nationwide poll indicated Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris has lost her edge and may soon lose a great deal more. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll asked nearly 1,700 registered voters between Sept. 3 and 6 whom they would vote for if the election were held today: 48% said they'd vote for President Donald Trump; 47% said Harris. With minor candidates included, Trump has a two-point lead (48%-46%) over Harris. The Times suggested the result was surprising because it is "the first lead for Mr. Trump in a major nonpartisan national survey in about a month." Statistician and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver suggested over the weekend that these poll numbers "are just a bit worse for Harris than the previous NYT/Siena national survey in July and considerably worse for her than a series of battleground state polls the Times conducted in early August." "The honeymoon is officially over," Trump spokesman Jason Miller told Politico, "and Kamala Harris has been exposed as a radical left individual who owns the destruction of our economy and our border." It's clear that over the next few weeks, Harris will have to do more than campaign on "joy" and anti-Trump attacks. Whereas only 12% of respondents said they needed to learn more about Trump, 31% said the same about Harris. 63% of respondents specified that they would like to know about her policies and plans. While voters appear keen to know more about Harris' agenda, prominent Democrats have suggested in recent weeks that their candidate should continue to ignore the "nitty gritty" and focus instead on "vibes." 'None of this will matter if she has a good night.' Rep. Annie Kuster (R-N.H.), the chairwoman of the New Democrat Coalition, told CNN, "I don't think there's a real strong reason for her to try and weed out any points of view right now." Secrecy may not, however, constitute a winning strategy. "I don't know what Kamala's plans are," Dawn Conley, a small business owner from Tennessee, told the Times. "It's kind of hard to make a decision when you don't know what the other party's platform is going to be." The presidential debate Tuesday will afford Harris an opportunity to retire her platitudes and provide Americans with a basic idea of how she might run the free world. Nate Silver suggested that "none of this will matter if she has a good night" at the debate. However, the debate will also provide Trump with a chance to very publicly hammer Harris over three of the top four issues cited by respondents in the poll as deciding factors when voting in November: the economy, immigration, and inflation and the cost of living. When asked which candidate they figured would do a better job of handling their top issue, 50% of respondents said Trump; 43% said Harris. On the economy, 56% said Trump would do a better job; 40% said Harris. On immigration, 53% said Trump would do a better job; 42% said Harris. Harris was, however, greatly favored to do a better job on the issue of abortion. There appears to be a couple of issues in which Harris is on the wrong side where the majority of voters are concerned. For instance, 65% of respondents signaled support for increased domestic production of fossil fuels, and the majority (51%) oppose a federal law establishing price controls on food and groceries. Price controls, climate-alarmist curbs on American energy, and other proposals advanced by Harris appear to have a plurality of Americans figuring her for a radical. 'Voters want a return to pro-America policies that actually work, not the weak, failed, and dangerously liberal policies of Comrade Kamala.' While only 32% of respondents suggested Trump is too conservative, 47% of likely voters indicated Harris is too liberal/progressive. Whereas 40% of women said Harris leaned too far left, 56% of male respondents said so. Harris' tether to Biden may also serve to trip her up in November. It appears that a great many respondents (63%) want the next president to "represent a major change from Joe Biden." When it comes to assigning blame for the Biden-Harris administration's failures, 55% of respondents said Harris should receive some or a lot of blame for rising prices; 63% said she should receive some or a lot of blame for problems at the border; and 49% said she should receive some or a lot of blame for the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan she boasted about signing off on. Harris may be unable to shake off her responsibility for recent failures, but she has proven able to shed points in critical swing states. The Times' swing-state polling averages suggested the two candidates are now tied in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina. Harris supposedly has a three-point edge in Wisconsin, a two-point edge in Michigan, and a one-point lead in Pennsylvania. Last week's YouGov/CBS News poll indicated that Harris and Trump were tied in Pennsylvania and that the Democrat had a two- and one-point lead in Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively. The Times/Siena poll also acknowledged that Trump is more popular now than polling data suggested he was previously ahead of both the 2016 and 2020 elections. Overall, 46% of likely voters said they had a somewhat or very favorable view of Trump. By way of comparison, 45% of likely voters said the same of Harris. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Newsweek in a statement, "Polling shows President Trump is dominating both nationally and in the battleground states because voters want a return to pro-America policies that actually work, not the weak, failed, and dangerously liberal policies of Comrade Kamala." The Trump campaign noted, "We continue to see a sustained pattern of President Trump overperforming with black voters (17-74 among registered voters; Trump +5 compared to 2020 exits and Harris running 13 points behind Biden) and Hispanic voters (42-51 among registered voters; Trump +10 compared to 2020 exits and Harris running 14 points behind Biden)." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

NFL wide receiver Tyreek Hill was arrested during a traffic stop just hours before his Miami Dolphins hosted their first game of the season. His teammate was also detained during the altercation.On his way to the stadium, Hill was stopped in his sports car and detained by police on the ground, a video showed. ESPN's Jeff Darlington said the athlete was cited for reckless driving and got into a verbal altercation with police when he was pulled over.A video circulated online showing three officers detaining Hill, with the star player laying face down on the pavement in handcuffs.It would later be reported that Dolphins defensive tackle Calais Campbell was also handcuffed during the traffic stop after allegedly trying to de-escalate the situation."They put handcuffs on me too, and I was like 'What's going on?' I didn't understand what the issue was,” Campbell told the NFL Network, per CNN. — (@) 'I wasn't disrespectful because my mom didn't raise me that way.'Both players were released in time for the Dolphins season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars where Hill shined, leading his team in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. After an 80-yard touchdown by Hill, the Dolphins completed a second-half comeback to win 20-17.Following the game, Hill spoke at a press conference and expressed confusion over his detainment. When asked why he was pulled over, he told reporters it was for speeding but also that he wasn't sure why the situation played out the way it did."I wasn't disrespectful because my mom didn't raise me that way, didn't cuss, didn’t do none of that. Like I said, I'm still trying to figure it out," Hill said.Hill's agent Drew Rosenhaus said that the wide receiver "got a ticket for a moving violation [while] entering the stadium.""How things escalated into the situation that they were in, in handcuffs and being held on the ground with police is mind-boggling to me," the agent added.Later in the day, Miami-Dade Police Department Director Stephanie V. Daniels said one of the officers involved in the incident had been placed on administrative leave.“Following the incident involving Tyreek Hill, I have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation to ensure a thorough review of the matter," a statement posted to X read. "I'm committed to transparency and accountability to the community with any situation involving my officers," the police director added. — (@) Hill went on to tell reporters that he hoped to be a police officer one day and that he wants to use his platform to team up with the police department in the future to make a positive impact.The star player also expressed concern about what might have happened if he weren't a famous athlete, citing that he didn't "name drop" or let the police know that he was a football player."I wasn't raised like that," he reiterated. "What if I wasn't Tyreek Hill? Worst case scenario, you know, because it's crazy. I want to be a cop one day. I got a state trooper hat, all that, you know? So, I got a lot of respect for cops, man. But, obviously everybody has bad apples in every situation."The Miami Dolphins host the Buffalo Bills at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Thursday, September 12.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Jason Whitlock pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing Deion Sanders’ leadership over the Colorado Buffaloes football program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Simply put, Whitlock doesn’t respect the culture Sanders has created, and the latest scandal — a fistfight between former special teams coach Trevor Reilly and a graduate assistant — proves it. Whitlock and "Last Chance U’s" coach Jason Brown analyze the footage of the fight, which was recently released by Athlon Sports. In the video, Warren Sapp — former NFL player and current senior quality control analyst for the Colorado Buffaloes — can be heard laughing and joking about the fight. According to Whitlock, the footage speaks to “just how much masculine energy there is on a football team.” “I'm asking you though, as a former coach, is this a big deal? Is this common? Does it say something bad about Deion’s program? Or is it, ‘hey man, this is what goes on and people just don't know’?” he asks Brown. Deion Sanders' TOXIC Colorado Culture Leads to Fist Fight www.youtube.com “The Warren Sapp commentary, I'm just going to be honest, that is a bad look on Deion's part,” says Brown. “I better not see something leak on social media with my staff or members of it talking about something else that's going on within our infrastructure or in our house,” he continues, adding, “For that to leak out ... shows me that there's something missing there with leadership.” On the other hand, Brown recognizes that these kinds of incidents are common. However, it’s Colorado’s intentional publicity that’s problematic. “I bet you it happens everywhere, Jason. I just bet you it's not out there on so many social media platforms because a more seasoned veteran head coach probably has nipped it in the bud,” he says. Jason agrees and points to other failures on the part of Sanders. “They're inviting gangster rappers into their locker room to rap and to entertain the kids,” he condemns, adding that gangster rappers’ “death rate by violence” is “the highest of any profession in American history.” “Inviting a violent culture into an already intense situation — 100 dudes in a locker room playing a masculine sport like football — and you're just throwing logs on that fire,” he says. “People are sitting there saying, ‘I'm not surprised that their coaches are fighting and it's captured on tape and that people are giggling about it.”’ To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above. Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Glenn Beck joined Tucker Carlson in Salt Lake City on Saturday as part of the fourth stop in Carlson's live tour across the United States. They discussed the current state of politics, the "end times," and the spiritual battle between good and evil."I sat with some biblical scholars, some real scholars, and they were teaching me about the end times. And the whole time, I'm like, 'This sounds familiar. Think I'm seeing some of this now,'" Beck told Carlson.'We're fighting the same battle we have fought from the very beginning.'"It feels like the end times. Enough of the signs are here that it could happen quickly," he added.Carlson asked, "What are you noticing that makes you think this has been foretold?""The breakdown of society," Beck responded. "The destruction of women alone is awesome in its evilness. It is staggering how evil that is."He continued, "There's more good than there is evil, but we are not standing up. Stand up and say it out loud, 'That's wrong; that's evil. That will not happen around me on my watch, period.'"During the hour-long conversation, they discussed how some politicians are "working for evil" by pushing for gender-mutilating surgeries for children, advocating for abortions, and battling against free speech."If our churches would just say, 'Go out and vote and use the scriptures to tell you the difference between right and wrong,'" Beck said."We're fighting the same battle we have fought from the very beginning. This is as old as the Tower of Babel; it's as old as Satan being cast out," he stated. "What did Satan say? 'I'll bring them all back to you, Father. I'll bring them all back, but I want the credit. I'll tell them what to do, and you won't lose any of them,'" Beck continued, referencing the Book of Mormon. "Jesus said, 'Send me. They're going to make mistakes, but I will sacrifice myself. I will die so they can live again.' Which one did God choose? Jesus."Beck explained how some politicians are promoting Satan's strategy."We're having the same argument," he remarked. "All of these politicians are saying, 'Give me the credit. I'll tell them exactly what to do. Nobody will be hurt. Nobody's going to be running with a stick that could poke out their eye. Nobody will have guns. And if that doesn't work, nobody will have knives. Nobody will have choice because nobody can fail because that causes problems. That's Satan's plan. That's not Jesus."Beck noted that "God believes in individual choice.""You can either wallow in your problems or you can conquer them and put them in the right place — in the rearview mirror because you've learned from it, and it no longer has power over you. That's the plan of God," he added.Carlson and Beck also talked about the recent assassination attempt against Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump."As a fiction writer, I would say that was an 'Op.' They tried to kill the president of the United States," Beck replied.Carlson remarked, "I think we can say conclusively, the Biden administration allowed that to happen, period. They literally allowed that to happen. Whether knowingly or not, they allowed it to happen."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

SANTEE, Calif. — In the city hall, near the base of the hills surrounding the border town of Santee, California, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) led a House Judiciary Committee field hearing to discuss the impacts of the immigration crisis on the Golden State, where many non-Central Americans have illegally entered into the United States. California was initially spared the brunt of the record number of illegal border crossings at the start of the Biden-Harris administration, but as time went on, people from countries such as China reportedly started to take advantage of the country's open border. Now, years after the crisis started, international gangs unknown in the United States prior to 2021 have established themselves in multiple cities across the country. Riverside County Undersheriff Don Sharp testified that even though his county does not sit directly on the border like San Diego County, his department has been busy dealing with the human and drug trafficking that has made its way past Border Patrol. 'We try to to interdict these people ... to get ahead of it.' "In Riverside County alone, our narcotics unit seized 359 pounds of fentanyl and over 2.3 million fentanyl pills in 2023. ... What did we miss? We know we missed plenty," Sharp lamented, noting that his deputies respond to fentanyl overdose cases on a daily basis. Sharp confirmed that since Border Patrol agents have been taken off the line to process and watch over illegal immigrants who give themselves up, the drug loads and human trafficking operations have become bigger. Sharp told Blaze News that the threat with gangs like Tren de Aragua is real and should be taken "very seriously." The Venezuelan gang made national headlines once again in recent days, this time for terrorizing residents in apartments in Aurora, Colorado. "These groups basically create a hub for themselves, like they do at those apartment complexes. They then have a place that they can now use people as victims and start controlling the area. ... We try to to interdict these people ... to get ahead of it before they end up in these locations across the nation," Sharp said. "Several committees in Congress are looking into how to undo the damage. Some of that, in the case of Venezuela, it is virtually impossible for us to get Venezuelan cooperation. However, all of these individuals that are now operating in the United States came in through Mexico. It is possible to have Mexico stop it. It is even possible to deport to Mexico people who were wrongfully allowed to pass through Mexico," Issa explained. The arrival of the South American gang in places like Colorado, Illinois, and Florida has put law enforcement on high alert, even though in the Aurora case, local officials are downplaying the threat. Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) in 2023 praised the Biden-Harris administration for expanding protections for Venezuelans who are in the U.S. because they are searching for "a better life in America and who can now help contribute to our economy and fill much-needed jobs.""They have been involved in numerous crimes throughout the country, from thefts, robberies, assaults, sex crimes, extortion, and murder. Some argue [Tren de Aragua] accounts for a small percentage of violent crimes but the fact is that there should be ZERO crimes against the public as this gang should not have been able to expand their presence in the US as a result of catch [and] release policies," Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez said on X."One victim is too many, one life lost at the hands of this criminal gang is inexcusable."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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