Trump’s tweet this morning labeling some DACA recipients as “very tough, hardened criminals” follows years of conservative media smearing both immigrants generally and people in the DACA program specifically as criminals, even though the young immigrants who qualify for deferred action cannot have been “convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor or three or more other misdemeanors.” Studies have shown that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born American citizens, and other data show that people who have applied for DACA protections are far less likely than U.S.-born citizens to have been arrested.

Despite these facts, Twitter accounts belonging to CBS News and NBC News uncritically repeated Trump’s lie: