Only One Mention of Immigration or Xenophobia Occurred During This Weekend's Major Sunday
​Morning Public Affairs Programs

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Click the Play Button, above, to see excerpts of instances in which the subjects of immigration or xenophobia were discussed during the July 5, 2020, Sunday public affairs programs.

News coverage of the newly intensifying COVID-19 pandemic and of the 2020 presidential campaign crowded out coverage of almost any other issue on the five top Sunday public affairs news programs this week, leaving little room for any discussions or comments about immigration, refugees, xenophobia on the July 5, 2020 editions of those programs.

The only mention alluding to immigration, immigrants, or xenophobia during the programs this week came from NBC's Peter Alexander.

​A summary of the discussions that took place during the July 5, 2020, editions of the Sunday morning public affairs programs, along with a link to video of those discussions, follows:

Friday, July 3, 2020

For the second week in a row, it appears that discussions about immigration, refugees, or xenophobia will likely be scarce-to-non-existent during the coming weekend's Sunday public affairs programs.

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

A Trump-appointed federal district judge in Washington, DC has issued an opinion striking down a Trump Administration rule requiring migrants seeking to enter the United States to first seek asylum in countries they travel through on their way.  Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued his order and its accompanying opinion late in the evening on Tuesday. June 30, 2020, concluding that the ban failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) governing how agencies should implement rules.  The Administration had issued the ban in July of 2019 in an effort to prevent Central American migrants fleeing violence in their countries from seeking asylum in the United States,