A Sinclair interview with a member of an anti-immigration extremist group aired across the country this weekend – By Casey Wexler (Media Matters) / Oct 20 2020
Sharyl Attkisson’s interview with a senior research fellow at the white nationalist-founded Center for Immigration Studies reportedly aired on 162 local news stations
Sinclair Broadcast Group host Sharyl Attkisson failed to disclose Jerry Kammer’s affiliation with the anti-immigration extremist group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) during an interview with him which aired on 162 local news stations, according to the Full Measure website. During the interview, Attkisson allowed Kammer to whitewash his organization’s nativist views by describing himself as a “moderate liberal” and introducing him as a journalist. She never challenged any of his false or misleading claims about immigration. Attkisson also failed to bring up President Donald Trump’s child separation policy and the numerous deaths of people in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which Kammer’s organization explicitly supported.
In his interview for Sinclair, Kammer pushed multiple debunked claims about undocumented immigrants with no pushback from Attkisson:
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JERRY KAMMER (CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES): You have the libertarian pro-business right that can’t get enough of hardworking people who are willing to work for far less and who are afraid to complain about working conditions because they’re fearful of being deported. And of course this puts authorized workers, native-born as well as legal immigrants, at a terrible competitive disadvantage. Many of them have lost jobs.
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