When the Associated Press announced it was dropping the term “illegal immigrant” from its stylebook, the world’s largest news-gathering outlet did offer reporters “acceptable variations,” such as “living in a country without legal permission.” The Washington Post might have settled on its own variation, which is leaving illegal immigration status out of its reporting entirely.
Washington Post reporter Justin Jouvenal is live-tweeting the murder trial of Julio Miguel Blanco Garcia, a day laborer who is charged in the brutal stabbing death of 19-year-old Vanessa Pham. Blanco Garcia has pleaded not guilty, and his defense attorney says his client, who was planning to steal TVs from a store, was hallucinating from having smoked several PCP-laced cigarettes. It was “a perfect storm of tragedy,” see?
Vanessa Pham likely tried to fight off her killer, examiner says. Latest from Day 2 of her accused killer's trial http://t.co/UWN6Fu632e
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) August 20, 2013
MT @jjouvenal Vanessa Pham likely tried to fight off her illegal alien killer, examiner says. Day 2 of trial http://t.co/QIHFom2A5Q
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) August 20, 2013
Everyone knows that “MT” stands for “modified tweet,” but some harsh doses of truth require WWMTM, for “Wow, way more than modified.”
Wow, WAY more than modified @michellemalkin: MT @jjouvenal Vanessa Pham likely tried to fight off her illegal alien killer, examiner says.
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) August 20, 2013
@jjouvenal @michellemalkin Way more tha modified as in I said nothing like what you wrote
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) August 20, 2013
https://twitter.com/daniel_thecuban/status/369935220914782208
https://twitter.com/CN_AaronF/status/369935841071599616
Don’t worry; there’s no charge for adding pertinent facts.
WaPo's @jjouvenal takes issue w/my MT cuz I added fact that Vanessa Pham's accused killer is an illegal alien ==> https://t.co/U7fgFMIVG8
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) August 20, 2013
Why bring up Blanco Garcia’s immigration status? First, because the Washington Post has a habit of leaving it out of its coverage, and second, because as Malkin noted on her website:
The horrific murder of Vanessa Pham was 100 percent preventable. Blanco-Garcia never should have been here in the first place. After each encounter with law enforcement, he should have been detained, deported and kept out. For good.
But … Dreamers! Or something.
@michellemalkin @jjouvenal Illegal alien status of criminals NEEDS to be emphasized so as to point to Reality we face.
— @1 BrotherJames (@Docjp) August 20, 2013
https://twitter.com/p_bruce/status/369938865508720642
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