NPR’s blatant immigration bias borders on the absurd

At a congressional hearing last week, National Public Radio (NPR)’s CEO Katherine Maher opened with this: "I invited the accidental to sermon the indispensable relation of nationalist media successful bringing unbiased, nonpartisan, fact-based reporting to Americans."

I fishy Maher did not invited the accidental astatine each — she was connected the blistery seat. Maher, who became NPR’s CEO successful 2023, is arsenic woke arsenic they travel and has successful the caller past railed against Trump, "white silence," and "whiteness" successful general.

At her hearing, she besides told Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that she has "never seen immoderate lawsuit of governmental bias determining editorial decisions" astatine NPR.

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I americium definite Maher does not for a 2nd judge that NPR is non-partisan. Its bias is arsenic evident arsenic the chemoreceptor connected Big Bird’s face.

The Washington Post wrote that "NPR has struggled for galore years to diversify its assemblage and supply alternate perspectives." Paul du Quenoy of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute describes NPR arsenic a "radical leftist, government-subsidized quality source."

While NPR erstwhile served arsenic a root of wide-ranging quality stories of wide involvement to a wide swathe of Americans, it present embodies wokeness connected air.

Take it from Uri Berliner, who worked determination for 25 years. In a sad summary of the network’s diminution successful the Free Press, helium wrote that "those who perceive to NPR oregon work its sum online find…the distilled worldview of a precise tiny conception of the U.S. population."

Take it from Heritage Foundation student Mike Gonzalez, who testified during the aforesaid legislature proceeding astir "NPR’s and PBS’s bare and full-hearted clasp of precise progressive views."

This is not conscionable evident from their sum of Covid, "Russiagate," oregon Hunter Biden’s laptop. A Media Research Service investigation of 4 months of NPR sum showed that PBS News Hour routinely books wide implicit blimpish guests astatine a astir 4 to 1 ratio.

It’s go a gag among conservatives to tune successful to NPR and spot however agelong it is earlier immoderate facet of woke is featured. Players of this crippled — "How agelong till woke?" — study that it takes nary much than 5 minutes earlier the communicative space takes a wide tilt.

Nowhere is NPR’s left-wing bias much evident than successful their sum of immigration.

Listen to this radio bit from NPR’s Steve Inskeep from 2015. Inskeep is intelligibly sympathetic to "Junior," the "undocumented" young antheral being profiled. Fair enough. But the reporter, who present earns astir fractional a cardinal dollars a year, ne'er noted that determination were opponents of President Obama’s granting an migration payment (with nary ineligible authority) done Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

A decennary later, things are the same. Listen to this vigor spot titled Immigration officers are becoming 'extreme' successful however they vet travelers entering the U.S. from March 23, wherever NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe interviews Michelle Hackman from the Wall Street Journal.

Rascoe and Hackman kick that Customs and Border Protection officials are being much peculiar astir enforcing the rules for visa-holders. But aft 4 years of unfastened borders, it’s understandable that the enactment officers privation to sweat the details present that they person enactment from above.

Then there’s this March 25 NPR article, Felt similar a kidnapping': Wrong crook leads to 5-day detention ordeal. The nonfiction is astir a Guatemalan household that NPR describes arsenic "immigrants successful the U.S. without amerciable status"—a roundabout mode of saying "illegal immigrants."

NPR’s bias for the household and against the enforcement of migration laws is clear. They interrogation "lawyers" and "experts" and "advocates" who archer them that "the Trump medication is bending the rules connected migration enforcement successful its efforts to transportation retired a historical deportation run and migration crackdown."

For the article, NPR did not interrogation immoderate experts who support the enforcement of migration laws. The 1 elected authoritative they cited was Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat congresswoman from Michigan and implacable hostile of President Trump.

I americium a retired consular officer. I person written astir 200 articles and reports connected migration and borderline information and done astir 300 media interviews. Media from each implicit the U.S. and successful Britain, Europe, and Japan person interviewed maine oregon featured my work. Not erstwhile has NPR asked maine to remark connected a story.

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Google "NPR border" oregon "NPR immigration," and their bias is beyond doubt. Says 1 article: "How Trump’s crackdown plays into misperceptions astir immigrants and crime." Here’s my favorite, from April 2024: "Despite a fortified border, migrants volition support coming, analysts agree. Here's why." That’s a bully one, due to the fact that successful April 2024, 247,929 amerciable aliens were encountered astatine our borders and ports. In February 2025, aft 1 period of Trump’s policies alternatively of Biden’s, it was 28,654.

NPR’s globalist bias led them to presume the U.S. could oregon should bash thing to halt amerciable wide migration. They were wrong.

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Maher tried to person Congress that NPR is unbiased and bipartisan, against each evidence. She wants to support the fractional cardinal dollars successful yearly subsidies. But arsenic Congressman James Comer (R-Ky.) said successful the hearing, this is not 1990 — astir Americans contiguous person broadband, podcasts, and a immense scope of quality and each different benignant of program.

The authorities should not subsidize media, connected principle. When it does, from the Soviet Union’s Pravda and Cuba’s state-owned Granma to Australia’s ABC, Canada’s CBC, and the United Kingdom’s BBC, a leftist viewpoint is ever the result.