Migration advocates are spotlighting tearful migrants at President Donald Trump’s restored southern border as the advocates try to reduce Americans’ record support for deportations.
“It is emotional extortion and it works on low-information readers and people that are watching television,” said Todd Bensman, a migration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies. “The media needs to hold the people who are pushing that tactic to account — like they do anybody in the MAGA movement or Donald Trump.”
“I’m not arguing for Americans to have a hard heart,” Bensman said, who described the emotionally manipulative news reports as “Injustice Porn.”
“I’m arguing for them to put [the crying] in the context … [because] this is how you create and maintain a civilization” of
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