Top officials in the Trump administration tore into the New York Times for publishing a story about a suspect arrested for raping a dead man in a New York City subway car without mentioning that he is an illegal alien.
On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed the immigration history of Felix Rojas, 44, who allegedly performed horrific sexual acts on the body of a man who died inside a Manhattan subway car last month.
Rojas was apprehended last Sunday and charged with rape and grand larceny in connection with the attack, which unfolded on April 8.
The Times’ coverage of the arrest, published on April 28, refers to Rojas merely as a “Brooklyn man,” and has not been updated to include the fact that he is a Mexican national who has illegally entered the U.S. at least five times since 1998.
Instead, the paper focused on his reputation as “part of a churchgoing family with three children” who “did not have a criminal history and was not listed on the state’s sex offender registry.”
On Saturday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin ripped the Times for refusing to “mention anywhere in its 400-word story on the monstrous rape of a corpse on the NYC subway that the depraved perpetrator is an ILLEGAL alien.”
“Why not report the facts, NYTimes?”
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, also blasted the outlet and the mainstream media at large for running cover for dangerous illegal aliens.
“Whether it’s ‘Brooklyn Man’ or ‘Maryland Dad’ the media will always lie to protect criminal aliens,” Miller wrote on X on Saturday.
More than 150,000 illegal aliens have been apprehended in the U.S. since President Trump took office, many of whom have serious criminal histories.