When it comes to deportations, why are the media hiding the ball?

Few things are so unhelpful as the journalist who buries the lede. 

There has been a lot of that lately, especially insofar as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is concerned. 

Take, for example, the case of the Georgetown University researcher arrested in Virginia last week over his alleged ties to terrorism. Badar Khan Suri reportedly spread Hamas propaganda online while having “close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas,” according to the Department of Homeland Security.