Nexstar Helps Promote White Nationalist

Nexstar Washington-based Reporter Anna Wiernicki did a story about President Joe Biden’s immigration policy.

The story was fed to the Nexstar stations and at least two dozen of those stations ran the story.

But, Media Matters reports that the story featured an interview with Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) senior fellow Todd Bensman, who fearmongered that “an open border” policy would allow migrants to “get into the United States and stay forever.”

The Nexstar segment cited Bensman as an expert on immigration with no reference to his history of spreading misinformation or the fact that the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies CIS as a hate group.

CIS was established by white nationalist and eugenicist John Tanton, who also founded multiple other extremist anti-immigrant organizations including the Federation for American Immigration Reform and NumbersUSA.

Wiernicki’s segment did not mention that Bensman specifically has a history of pushing the conspiracy theory that the terrorist group ISIS was infiltrating the United States through the southern border. Instead, the interview treated Bensman as an expert on immigration policy who can provide a legitimate opposing view to the Biden administration’s plan.

You almost kind of expect a company like Sinclair to do this, but you would not have expected this from Nexstar.

Then again….maybe we should.