Fox Host Lies That Only “Criminals” Get Deported

Media Matters reports:

Fox continues to spread the false claim that immigrants with criminal records are the only people at risk of deportation in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation blitz, this time on Fox’s Spanish-language news show. Host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked her guest, Texas Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland, if it was correct that the current deportation efforts exclusively target “criminals, murderers, and rapists.”

Cleveland affirmed this, adding that “the United States needs illegal workers” to work “in the fields, for construction … cooks, cleaners, but we don’t want criminals.” Campos-Duffy, later emphasized that the people currently sought for deportation do not include “those who came and crossed illegally. This phase is just for criminals.”

Air Force planes landed in Colombia on January 28 with more than 200 Colombian migrants, none of whom “had criminal records in the U.S. or Colombia,” according to Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo.

Read the full article. Multiple other outlets that have reported that non-criminals have been swept up in ICE raids across the country. Duffy and fellow former reality show contestant Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy have nine children, at least some of whom would likely get suspicious looks from ICE agents.