As of Saturday morning, the Kansas City Star had yet to acknowledge that a man who made an illegal entry into the country has been arrested for raping an unconscious woman in UMKC’s Johnson Hall.

There were no articles on the attack on the Saturday’s home page, and a search of the Star website found only a brief article from March 1 that failed to discuss the immigration status of the accused, Juan Contreras.

The Star did, however, have an article on immigration on its homepage, “Trump administration considering separating immigrant parents from children at border, report says.” Like so many of the others the Star has run, it paints President Trump as heartless, if not racist. True to form, the Star gave the last word to Trump critic Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who greeted the news with the comment, “more cruelty.”

The Star did not have to look that far for examples of real cruelty. Drugging a young woman and raping her would seem to qualify and not just metaphorically.

In June 2015, when announcing his candidacy, Trump said of illegal immigrants from Mexico, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” This comment inflamed the media and inspired even highly visible Democrats to slander.

Said vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine about Trump while on the campaign trail, “The thing that amazes me is the depth of his trash talking with Latinos, saying all Mexicans are rapists and going after Latino immigrants.” Kaine’s comment were hardly unique.

Liberal University of Texas professor Alberto Martinez wrote in Salon about his questioning of friends and students. “’What has Donald Trump said that you found most offensive?’ One student raised her hand high: ‘He said that all Mexicans are rapists.’ I asked a coworker the same question. He replied: ‘He said that all Mexican immigrants are rapists.’”

An honest liberal, Martinez surveyed the media on the subject. Here is what he found:

The New York Times: “Trump’s claim that illegal Mexican immigrants are ‘rapists.”

Time Magazine: “Trump’s comment that Mexican immigrants are ‘rapists.’”

Associated Press: “Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals”

CBS News: “Trump defends calling Mexican immigrants ‘rapists.’”

L.A. Times: “describing Mexican immigrants as ‘rapists.’”

Fortune: “in a speech branding Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.”

Hollywood Reporter: “he referred to Mexican immigrants as ‘rapists.’”

Huffington Post: “He called Latino immigrants ‘criminals’ and ‘rapists.’”

The Washington Post: “He referred to Mexicans as “rapists.”

Said Martinez prophetically in December 2015, “It is no wonder that many people think the media is grossly dishonest. No wonder Mr. Trump’s critiques of the media make his followers cheer.”

Despite the media focus on campus rape and the obvious relevance of Contreras’s immigration status, the reader should expect this story to stay buried.