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The Secretary of Homeland Security announced the closure of two jails for undocumented immigrants holding, as per the official DHS memo, “individuals whose continued detention is needed to achieve our national security, public safety, and border security mission”. However, at the Latino nets, the prisons were identified as “detention centers”, and the prisoners, not as a threat for national security, but “persons with ongoing immigration processes”, in the words of Univision anchor Borja Voces.
Two Univision reports on immigration -and one at Telemundo- that aired after the “breaking news” of Mayorkas’ decision, were more like public relations informercials than actual news about the immigration crisis. Watch: