Reporter Just Shreds Associated Press After Report on Child Murder Suspects Leaves Out Critical Detail

Over the last several months, the issue of Joe Biden's border crisis has taken center stage in the aftermath of high-profile cases like the February murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, the recent arrest of the suspect in the August 2023 Rachel Morin Maryland rape/murder case, and the June 2024 rape of a 13-year-old NYC girl.

In all of them, those arrested were illegal immigrants, some of who reportedly had violent histories prior to the crimes they have been accused of committing in these cases.

Sadly, another case has been added to the list.

As RedState's Bob Hoge previously reported, two Venezuelan illegal immigrants have been arrested and charged in the strangulation death of a 12-year-old Texas girl, whose body they allegedly dumped in a Houston creek.

Though the suspects were Venezuelan illegal immigrants, that information was nowhere to be found in the Associated Press write-up on the story. Instead, they simply referred to the two suspects as "two men":

2 men arrested in strangulation of 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek https://t.co/TtbfXL7mBz
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 21, 2024

As of this writing, there is literally no mention in their report of the fact that these men are illegal immigrants and there is no mention that they were from Venezuela:

Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body was found in a Houston creek earlier this week were arrested Thursday in her death, police said.
Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, each face a charge of capital murder in the killing of Jocelyn Nungaray, police said. The medical examiner has determined that her cause of death was strangulation.

Their omission of the critical detail of the two suspects' immigration status caused Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, who has spent years reporting directly from the border, to go off. He noted that the especially concerning thing about it was the fact that so many other news outlets will carry/use the Associated Press reporting on this tragic case without doing any deeper dives on it:

Not only does AP not mention that both suspects are illegal aliens who were both recently caught & released at border, they don’t even mention that they are from Venezuela, which police publicly disclosed.

“2 men”.

Media across the country will use AP wires/reporting on this. https://t.co/pKyPiQ6aHu
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 21, 2024

On Friday morning, Melugin tweeted that ICE had confirmed their reporting on the two suspects:

BREAKING: ICE confirms our reporting. Both suspects are illegal aliens from Venezuela who were both recently caught & released at the border - one on May 28th, the other on March 14th. ICE has placed detainers on both men. ICE statement to @FoxNews below 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/lv0QV1L2Ka
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 21, 2024

Just infuriating. These guys shouldn't have been here. But they were thanks to Joe Biden, and what they allegedly did to that little girl was nothing short of horrific.

The public deserves a full accounting on this case, but they haven't gotten it, because apparently, the Associated Press prioritizes wokeness, political correctness, and helping Joe Biden get reelected over doing their damned jobs.