The Sunday after President Trump met with and aided the victims of storm-ravaged Texas, ABC’s Martha Raddatz exploited the natural disaster to lobby for him to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). “The experience of Harvey has been a profound moment in a tumultuous year,” she righteously opined during This Week. “Showing the best of America, but also threatening to expose the cost of the rancor and division that has infected our political life.”

Before Raddatz began pushing for DACA, she began her segment by highlighting the recovery efforts and shadowed a local police chief has he aided a shelter. “But the chief's work to help evacuees may be complicated by a new challenge. President Trump set to announce his decision this week on whether to end the DACA program,” she bemoaned.

“Houston has one of the highest populations of so-called ‘Dreamers’ in the country,” Raddatz noted. “We met one of them. 15-year-old Jasmine Medrano. As her family returned to their flooded out Houston home, which they just recently paid off.”

In a sit-down interview with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Raddatz pressured him on the Medrano’s situation. “She said she doesn't know what she's more nervous about the flood or being deported. When should she stop being nervous,” she asked.

Governor Abbott told Raddatz that it was hard to tell what would happen right now but it mostly depended on what Congress and the President would do. He explained that the goal was “to make sure we keep America that shining city on the hill that people aspire to.” But Raddatz twisted Abbott’s words, asking if what he meant was: “So it's not with someone like her [the 15-year-old girl] here?”

“There will be ways in which America needs to continue to attract immigration through the legal system,” Abbott said, dismissing Raddatz’s wild assertion.

As Raddatz was wrapping up her report, she acted even more righteous in her suggestions about America. “And in the uncertainty about Houston's future and the hard questions facing this country,” she stated as people began to sing ‘Halleluiah’ in the background. “Will the spirit that got this city through the crisis last in the aftermath? Was Harvey a genuine watershed moment or will the underlying tensions tearing America apart rise again as the waters recede?”

Indeed, a very bleak outlook for the spirit of America from Raddatz and ABC while trying to exploit a tragic situation for a political end.

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