AP's Tilted Terms: Mean Trump Ends 'Legal Protections' for 'Migrants'
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AP's Tilted Terms: Mean Trump Ends 'Legal Protections' for 'Migrants'

The liberal media shows which groups they favor by the positive terms they use on their behalf. “Protections” is often a good example. Liberals will use the term “abortion protections,” which is odd considering you’re protecting the killing of unborn babies. Now it’s happening with illegal immigrants. Check this Associated Press headline, Mean Old Trump hates protections: Supreme Court lets Trump end legal protections for 500,000 migrants, exposing more to deportation Criminal justice reporter Lindsay Whitehurst didn't say "illegal" immigrants were the subject: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million. The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. There were five uses of the P-word, six if you count the headline. (It's seven when you see another AP headline in "Related Stories"!) The Justice Department argues that the protections for people fleeing turmoil in their home countries were always meant to be temporary... [Ketanji Brown] Jackson echoed what U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in ruling that ending the legal protections early would leave people with a stark choice: flee the country or risk losing everything....  The Supreme Court’s order is not a final ruling, but it means the protections will not be in place while the case proceeds. AP also repeatedly called it "humanitarian parole," suggesting Trump opposes humanitarian policies -- with no imagination that not every illegal immigrant is a humanitarian:  The high court’s decision could ultimately affect another ruling from Talwani this week in favor of other people covered by humanitarian parole policies, including Afghans, Ukrainians and children from Central America. Joe Biden used humanitarian parole more than any other president, employing a special presidential authority in effect since 1952. The Trump administration’s decision was the first-ever mass revocation of humanitarian parole, attorneys for the migrants said. They called the Trump administration’s moves “the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.” And there it is! A version of the word "illegal" only comes up once -- when Trump somehow creates "mass illegalization," not Biden!  The Trump-trashing AP reporter gets bias bonus points for reminding readers of "They're Eating the Pets" from last year:  Republican President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people, and in office has sought to dismantle Biden administration policies that expanded paths for migrants to live legally in the U.S. In a 2024 presidential debate, Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio, including those with legal status under the humanitarian parole program, were abducting and eating pets, court documents note. As you scroll through an AP story, you get their lying pop-up message begging for donations: “Now more than ever, we remain committed to covering the news quickly, accurately and without bias…If you believe in the importance of a free and fair press, please consider supporting AP. Your donation advances our mission to provide fact-based, nonpartisan information to the world.”