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Network Newscasts Note Record Border Surge, Hide WH ‘Root Causes’ Tie-in

You just know that things are bad when the network evening newscasts have to actually make the time to report on the ongoing explosion at the southern border. Tonight, all three networks reported on the record detentions this week. None, however, reported on the White House’s tie-in to the awful prisoner swap with the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela.

The tidiest of these reports, CBS’s item on the border explosion, clocks in at 26 seconds:

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, President Biden is sending top officials, including the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, to meet with Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the coming days about this worsening migrant crisis along the southern border. More than 10,000 migrants a day have been processed every day this week along that U.S. Mexico border, according to data obtained by CBS News.

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