Geraldo Blasts Fox News For Highlighting Illegal Status Of Tibbetts Murderer

“I know that most of the Fox audience disagrees with me, but I’m begging you to have compassion and not brand of this entire population by the deeds of this one person,” he said.

MacCallum pushed back and said the immigration issue is a serious one, echoing President Donald Trump‘s efforts to link illegal immigration with crime. That, Rivera said, was misleading.

“We at this network are putting that spin on the story,” he remarked. “This is a murder story, not an immigration story.”

Earlier, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick railed against the media and Rivera himself, blaming them as accomplices to Tibbets’ murder, an accusation by which the commentator was clearly offended, taking a moment to respond to that as well.

“To be called by that bottom feeding politician an accomplice to this young lady’s murder, that something I cannot abide,” Rivera said. “He is stereotyping 11 million people in our country here without documentation. They care for our babies, they mow our lawns, they wash our dishes, they pick our fruit, they pack our meat, they process our poultry.”