For Friday’s installment of CBS Evening News, correspondent Lilia Luciano decided to profile Brenda Martinez, a 28-year old California DACA recipient who has chosen to self-deport. Luciano framed the whole story as tragic as she wondered if Martinez was quitting too early, but she also claimed that an immigration judge greenlighting the deportation of anti-Semitic Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil means “she should be afraid.”
In the studio, co-host Maurice DuBois got the mourning started, “While the Trump administration is forcibly removing some undocumented immigrants, it is using different techniques to encourage others to leave on their own.”
Fellow co-host John Dickerson added, “Including taking away their Social Security numbers so they can’t work and can’t afford to live here. And using the IRS to track…
