The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday fired back at the mainstream media, accusing them of not properly portraying an illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested last week on suspicion of spitting on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Los Angeles.
Several media outlets, including KTTV in Los Angeles and the New York-based Latin Times, referred to Omar Pulido-Bastida, a Mexican national who was charged June 11 with a felony after an ICE agent was spat upon, as a “South LA man” or “man,” instead of referring to him as an illegal immigrant. The British-based Independent referred to him as an “L.A. man.”
“The media is attempting to force feed Americans that this is a ‘L.A. Man’ — it’s not,” Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said in a news release. “This is a criminal illegal alien who should have never been in our country.”
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