National TV news aired b-roll of the southern border when reporting on unrelated immigration news
Networks aired misleading border footage while discussing migrants who have lived in the country for a decade-plus
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In segments describing President Joe Biden’s actions to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children would be able to keep their families together, broadcast and cable news programs confusingly showed b-roll from the U.S. southern border — despite the administration's new policies having nothing to do with border policy. This misleading imagery used as a backdrop for unrelated immigration coverage frames citizenship for long-term U.S. residents as a border security issue, rather than a story that fundamentally affects millions of established families across the United States.