In a disturbing video posted on Twitter per week in the past, migrant activist and chief of the large 80,000-person caravan heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, Irineo Mujica declared that they have been “prepared for struggle” with the Nationwide Guard if they’d not allow them to via regardless if that they had the right documentation or not. And equally disturbing, at no level within the final seven days had the published networks (ABC, CBS, or NBC) shared this very clear risk with their viewers.
Regardless of the story circulating for per week, Fox Information Channel was the one main tv outlet to provide it appreciable airtime with a number of segments all through the weekend. And by Monday, they have been nonetheless at it whereas ABC’s World Information Tonight, CBS Night Information, and NBC Nightly Information have been gushing about Paul McCartney blaming John Lennon for the Beatles breaking apart.
In the meantime, the story was so widespread at it even showed up in reporting from an area Chicago tv station, WGN9. It additionally confirmed up on NewsNation Now’s On Steadiness with Leland Vittert. “You’ll assume that given all this data, the Biden administration could be sending for reinforcements and sending them to the border,” stated Vittert, however he wasn’t.
In Fox’s most up-to-date reporting on the matter, throughout Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, nationwide correspondent Invoice Melugin shared a soundbite of Mujica’s risk with an on-screen translation. “And this time, with papers or with out papers, we’re prepared for struggle. If the Nationwide Guard comes, and they’re so cowardly to wish to hit ladies and youngsters, prepare,” he yelled.
Issues bought much more disturbing as Mujica appeared to counsel they have been on some type of holy mission: “As a result of we go from the hand of God. And with the hand of God, there are not any weapons towards the hand of God.”
And in main as much as that risk of “struggle,” Melugin shared a video he took of a Mexican drug cartel taking pictures bullets with tracer rounds throughout the border into the U.S.:
MELUGIN: And only a few nights after the incident, we have been embedded with the Texas Nationwide Guard when a cartel machine gun fired throughout the border instantly into the USA. I caught it on video. Check out this.
[Cuts to video]
TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS (indistinguishable): Look there they’re. Holy sh[bleep], oh shoot. That’s positively U.S. aspect. .50 cal. That is simply indiscriminate firing.
“And what you are proper there are tracer rounds from a suspected cartel machine gun. These are coming from Mexico instantly into the USA, these rounds went proper over a Nationwide Guard commentary publish,” he added.
Melugin additionally reported that Biden had ordered lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in already bought, however not but put in border wall panels thrown out.
Carlson concluded the section by saying what was most likely on the minds of lots of people, “It is all past perception.”
The Monday omission of the specter of “struggle” by the caravan chief was made doable due to profitable sponsorships from Amazon on ABC, Tylenol on CBS, and Ford Motor Company on NBC. Their contact data is linked so you’ll be able to inform them in regards to the biased information they fund.
The transcript is beneath, click on “develop” to learn:
Fox Information Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
October 10, 2021
8:35:47 p.m. JapaneseTUCKER CARLSON: As if there’s not sufficient occurring this week, we have simply discovered that there’s yet one more caravan of overseas nationals who shouldn’t have permission to come back to this nation however will come right here anyway, making its approach towards our southern border tonight. That border stays utterly open and really harmful to this nation. Fox’s Invoice Melugin, as at all times, is reside for us proper there tonight. He joins us now. Hey, Invoice.
BILL MELUGIN: Hey, Tucker, good night to you. So look, as this border disaster continues to worsen month after month, the drug cartels working out listed here are beginning to get loads bolder of their actions. Check out these pictures out of Roma, Texas from the opposite day.
What you are is cartel gunmen concerned in human smuggling armed with rifles standing on the opposite aspect of the Rio Grande and taunting Texas Nationwide Guard troopers simply throughout the river. These guys have been racking the slides on their rifles and yelling over to the troopers, making threats.
And only a few nights after the incident, we have been embedded with the Texas Nationwide Guard when a cartel machine gun fired throughout the border instantly into the USA. I caught it on video. Check out this.
[Cuts to video]
TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS (indistinguishable): Look there they’re. Holy sh[bleep], oh shoot. That’s positively U.S. aspect. .50 cal. That is simply indiscriminate firing.
[Cuts back to live]
MELUGIN: And what you are proper there are tracer rounds from a suspected cartel machine weapons. These are coming from Mexico instantly into the USA, these rounds went proper over a Nationwide Guard commentary publish. It was unclear if it was from some type of a cartel gun battle within the Mexico Metropolis or if it was an intimidation issue however fortunately no troopers have been injured. However fairly uncommon to see that form of gunfire coming instantly into the USA.
As that is all occurring, as you talked about, there’s one other migrant caravan down in Mexico, tens of hundreds, making an attempt to get to the U.S. they usually’ve bought an activist chief who has some combating phrases. Take a hear.
IRINEO MUJICA (in Spanish, by way of on-screen translation): And this time, with papers or with out papers, we’re prepared for struggle. If the Nationwide Guard comes, and they’re so cowardly to wish to hit ladies and youngsters, prepare. As a result of we go from the hand of God. And with the hand of God, there are not any weapons towards the hand of God.
MELUGIN: After which lastly, check out this piece of exceptional video that our Fox drone crew shot right here within the Rio Grande Valley right this moment. What you’re looking at are greater than 20,000 metal panels of border wall that have been imagined to be constructed. As an alternative, they’re simply sitting round in storage. They’ve been since January when President Biden halted all building on the border wall.
Simply final Friday, the Biden administration formally introduced they’re canceling all remaining border wall contracts right here within the Rio Grande Valley. So all this metallic you see, it is already paid for. I am informed that stash particularly is value about $120 million, taxpayers on the hook for it. It was prepared to enter the bottom, it’s not going for use, it’s simply went to take a seat there.
And to wrap it up right here, the Biden administration says they’ll plan to make use of the remaining cash from the border wall funding to as a substitute fund environmental tasks out right here, together with some for, quote, “Cultural surveys.” We’ll ship it again to you.
TUCKER: It is all past perception. Invoice Melugin, thanks a lot. Respect it.
