{"id":1645656,"date":"2022-09-17T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1645656"},"modified":"2022-09-17T21:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T01:04:34","slug":"nbc-news-deletes-tweet-that-contained-disturbing-quote-from-immigration-activist-about-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-news-deletes-tweet-that-contained-disturbing-quote-from-immigration-activist-about-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News Deletes Tweet That Contained Disturbing Quote From Immigration Activist About Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbc-news-deletes-tweet-that-contained-disturbing-quote-from-immigration-activist-about-migrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1645656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NBC News faced backlash Friday afternoon after it tweeted out a news article that featured a quote from an immigration activist who compared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/illegal-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal immigrants<\/a> that Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R) sent to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to \u201ctrash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deleted tweet stated: \u201cFlorida Gov. DeSantis sending asylum-seekers to Martha\u2019s Vineyard is like \u2018me taking my trash out and just driving to different areas where I live and just throwing my trash there,\u2019 a founding member of a foundation which helps refugees says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/desantis-sending-migrants-marthas-vineyard-divides-venezuelan-american-rcna47972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quote<\/a> was from Max Lefeld, a founding member of the Casa Venezuela Dallas foundation, which helps migrants, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly s\u2014. Wow,\u201d political commentator Jason Howerton tweeted. \u201cSometimes you really just want to shut up and let them talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Republican Senate candidate in Ohio Bernie Moreno tweeted, \u201cJill Biden compares Hispanics to breakfast tacos and the extremists democrats, who make money from the suffering of illegal immigrants, compare migrants to \u2018trash.\u2019 I wonder why @NBCNews deleted their tweet? @NBCLatino Que paso?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUh, wow,\u201d Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018You see, migrants are literally trash\u2019 \u2013 Compassionate Libs explaining how actually DeSantis is the bad guy,\u201d the popular conservative account Comfortably Smug tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBC News compares migrants to trash,\u201d political commentator Stephen L. Miller tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t have been this easy,\u201d Commentary Editor and MSNBC contributor Noah Rothman tweeted. \u201cIt just cannot be that Republicans would stumble into this stunt and their opponents would adopt all their arguments while also making themselves into fastidious, snobbish caricatures. It just cannot be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRefugee group compares immigrants to trash and NBC just runs with it,\u201d Daily Caller reporter Laurel Duggan tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ron-desantis-flies-planes-full-of-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-report-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> earlier this week that it sent the illegal immigrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard as \u201cpart of the state\u2019s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStates like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country\u2019 by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as \u2018sanctuary states\u2019 and support for the Biden Administration\u2019s open border policies,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cIn this past legislative session the Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to implement a program to facilitate the transport of illegal immigrants from this state consistent with federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/newsom-demands-desantis-debate-him-gets-mocked-by-his-own-ex-staffer-youre-losing-the-argument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsom Demands DeSantis Debate Him, Gets Mocked By His Own Ex-Staffer: You\u2019re \u2018Losing The Argument\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News faced backlash Friday afternoon after it tweeted out a news article that featured a quote from an immigration activist who compared the illegal immigrants that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) sent to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to \u201ctrash.\u201d The deleted tweet stated: \u201cFlorida Gov. DeSantis sending asylum-seekers to Martha\u2019s Vineyard is like \u2018me taking my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1229244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}