Skip to main content
  • Online media
  • Tariffs
  • Epstein
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS
  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Media Matters for America

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Media Matters for America

  • Nav
  • Search
  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives
  • Online media
  • Tariffs
  • Epstein
  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS

Fox “Straight News” Twice Uses “Illegals” Slur In Intro To Immigration Segment

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/19/11 12:34 PM EDT

From the August 19 edition of Fox News' Happening Now:

Video file

Previously:

Fox & Friends Transitions From Immigration To Science: “From Illegal Aliens To ... Just Plain Aliens”

Bolling Rushes To Defense Of Alabama's Controversial Law Targeting “Illegals”

Fox Nation Slurs Undocumented Immigrants As “Illegal Alien[s]”

Why does Fox choose to use loaded term “illegals”?

The Latest

  1. Charlie Kirk: “Warrior culture is ascendant, which is exactly why the knives are out for Pete Hegseth about this rubbish story”

    Video & Audio 04/21/25 12:52 PM EDT

  2. Benny Johnson: “This pope was woke by every measure that I could see”

    Video & Audio 04/21/25 12:35 PM EDT

  3. Fox's Liz Peek is “so sick of hearing about due process for people who are in our country illegally”

    Video & Audio 04/21/25 11:56 AM EDT

  4. Fox News legal contributor says he fears Trump administration won't “honor due process”

    Video & Audio 04/21/25 11:08 AM EDT

  5. On SiriusXM, Angelo Carusone describes how right-leaning podcasters are offering “their audiences hope, and the hope is in the form of Trump”

    Video & Audio 04/18/25 4:18 PM EDT

Pagination

  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Current page 138
  • …
  • Next page ››

In This Article

  • Fox News

    Fox-News-MMFA-Tag.png

Related

  1. Right-wing media celebrate Trump’s campaign of retribution against political opponents

    Research/Study 08/27/25 2:36 PM EDT

  2. The failed indictment of sandwich guy shows the limits of Fox's propaganda

    Article 08/27/25 2:02 PM EDT

  3. Jesse Watters on Cracker Barrel rebrand: “The only thing that could’ve been worse, if they had made it Blacker Barrel”

    Video & Audio 08/26/25 6:25 PM EDT

Media Matters for America

Sign up for email updates
  • About
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • Submissions
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS

© 2025 Media Matters for America

RSS