Maria Sacchetti shows her total ignorance for using Kentucky Derby to bash Trump on immigration.
Washington Post immigration reporter Maria Sacchetti earned herself a wave of backlash when she attempted to use Saturday’s Kentucky Derby winner — Sovereignty, ridden by Venezuelan immigrant Junior Alvarado — as a cudgel with which to dishonestly attack President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies on illegal immigration and mass deportation.
Sacchetti, like so many others in broadcast and print media, conflated Alvarado — a legal immigrant from Venezuela — with the millions of illegal immigrants in the United States, suggesting that it Trump was allowed to continue deporting criminal illegals, Alvarado and others like him would be among them.
Critics quickly pointed out the fact that Alvarado was in the United States legally — and Trump’s deportation policies were aimed primarily at those who were not only in the country illegally but had also committed additional crimes since their arrival.
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