Evening cable shows continue to describe undocumented immigrants in denigrating terms CNN's evening programming used disparaging terminology to describe undocumented immigrants 102 times from January 1 to July 31, 2017. On CNN, speakers described undocumented immigrants as illegal 102 times from January 1 to July 31, 2017. Fox News’ evening programming used anti-immigrant language to describe undocumented immigrants 1,107 times from January 1 to July 31, 2017.