Media admit their role in pushing amnesty for illegal aliens
Dave GorakMadison
Immigration Policy Examiner
10/14/2013
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The push for amnesty is supported by various progressive groups — such as La Raza, unions and environmental groups — that favor government-imposed cultural variety, which is also called diversity. Increased diversity gives university-educated professionals more opportunities to arbitrage the resulting cultural and economic conflict for power, profit and status. Most immigrants tend to back Democratic candidates, spending priorities and activist groups. Also, political conflict gives journalists more cultural drama to write about.
Media admit their role in pushing amnesty for illegal aliens
Those of us who have closely followed the immigration issue in recent years were not surprised this weekend to learn that the mainstream media have a pro-amnesty agenda that calls for throwing 20 million jobless Americans to the wolves.
Their admission came during an Oct. 11 panel discussion in Washington, D.C., called "How Have the Media Covered Immigration Reform." Participants included Ted Hesson, Fusion; Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker; Julia Preston, The New York Times; and Beth Reinhard, National Journal. The roundtable was moderated by Ray Suarez of PBS NewsHour.
The most infuriating comment made during this discussion came from Ms. Preston, who said amnesty was a "civil right." Rewarding illegal aliens who disrespect our laws and sovereignty is on the same level as the struggle of Black Americans to secure their constitutional rights 60 years ago?
Preston also acknowledged that part of her job is to identify and track "resistance" to amnesty: “I have to write about… Where is the resistance? How strong is it? Is a popular resistance in this cycle or is it more of a political/ideological resistance?” she said.
Unfortunately, this "tracking" of resistance has for the most part manifested itself in efforts by journalists to demonize pro-enforcement Americans with terms like racist, nativist, xenophobic and bigotry.
Following is the beginning portion of the coverage of this event that was provided by the Daily Caller's Neil Munro; the rest of his story can be read here:
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New York Times reporter calls amnesty for illegal immigrants a 'civil right'
The campaign to win amnesty for illegal immigrants is “a very substantial civil rights movement,” according to New York Times reporter Julia Preston, who, along with other progressive journalists, spoke about the issue to a Washington, D.C. audience on Friday.
Preston is the New York Times’ primary immigration reporter — and the paper is cheering the push by progressives and employers to grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants during an extended recession. The Gray Lady also backs the simultaneous campaign to double legal immigration, which would bring in 22 million additional immigrant workers and consumers by 2023.
But, warned Preston, a “popular resistance out in the country” has sprung up to oppose amnesty.
A major part of her job is exposing and tracking the resistance, she said.
“I have to write about… Where is the resistance? How strong is it? Is a popular resistance in this cycle or is it more of a political/ideological resistance?” she said.
The resistance has critically weakened chances for an amnesty this year, several other journalists complained during the event.
The push-back “frankly, has killed it for this year, [but] I hate to be pessimistic,” said Ryan Lizza, a reporter for The New Yorker who wrote a revealing behind-the-scenes account of the Senate’s immigration debate in June.
“I”m pretty pessimistic, unfortunately, about immigration reform,” added Beth Reinhard, a Florida reporter who now works for National Journal.
Americans’ resistance to progressives’ immigration policy preferences is rallied by immigration reform groups, such as Numbers USA, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. These reform groups say they do not want to halt immigration, but want to reduce the inflow to help average Americans, rather than company owners and shareholders, or government officials and government-funded groups.
The push for amnesty is supported by various progressive groups — such as La Raza, unions and environmental groups — that favor government-imposed cultural variety, which is also called diversity. Increased diversity gives university-educated professionals more opportunities to arbitrage the resulting cultural and economic conflict for power, profit and status. Most immigrants tend to back Democratic candidates, spending priorities and activist groups. Also, political conflict gives journalists more cultural drama to write about.
Despite the reporters’ declarations of pessimism, the immigration push is not dead in 2013. GOP leaders say they’d like to push a major immigration rewrite through Congress this year, despite public opposition.
Throughout Friday’s presentation, Preston and Reinhard repeatedly expressed their sympathy for illegal immigrants without expressing empathy for Americans.
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