Anti-illegal immigrant activist gets death sentence; may be seen as a martyr

Media Matters For America, a non-profit Washington D.C. think tank, chastised the mainstream media for largely ignoring Forde's case. While Fox News Latino put the story on the front page, Fox News maintained silence, the think tank claimed.

"Instead, they helped perpetuate the myth of immigrant violence by focusing on stories where immigrants were the ones committing the crimes," Shauna Theel wrote.

In contrast, after rancher Robert Krentz was killed by an illegal immigrant last March, politicians cried for increased border security, The Christian Science Monitor reported.

"We have failed leadership: They won't speak up, they're silent," Carlos Galindo, a community activist and Phoenix radio talk-show host, told The Christian Science Monitor. "To not say that it's tragic for a child to die — that leaves it as acceptable to continue harming immigrants or Hispanics here in Arizona."

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