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Networks Spend 10x More Time on Student Arrest Than Gang Leader Capture

On March 27 the Trump administration scored a big win with the Virginia arrest of a top MS-13 leader. The day before (March 26) alleged Hamas-supporter and Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was picked up by ICE agents. 

So which arrest did the leftist news outlets care more about? The arrest of the Turkish student Ozturk.

From March 26 (when the cables first started reporting on Ozturk’s arrest) through March 27 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC devoted a total of 119 minutes, 18 seconds to the Ozturk case, but just 11 minutes, 42 seconds to the MS-13 leader capture. 

That’s ten times more coverage to Ozturk than the capture of MS-13 leader Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos. 

In fact, ABC, CBS, NBC didn’t devote a single second to the violent terrorist gang leader’s arrest. 

So why the discrepancy? Whereas the arrest of MS-13 leader was a great…

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