From NPR's "All Things Considered" Web Page:

The life of Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a former illegal immigrant, may sound like a movie script, but it is no fiction.

Twenty years ago, he hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.

Today, he is a neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a researcher who is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.

His remarkable journey began in a tiny farming community, 60 miles south of the U.S. border. Quinones-Hinojosa was born there, and by age 5, he was working at his father's gas station. His grandmother was a village healer and a midwife.

But in the mid-1970s, Mexico's economy collapsed, and his father could no longer keep food on the table for the family. Quinones-Hinojosa continued his schooling and became a teacher by the time he was 18, but he, too, was unable to provide for his family. So he made the decision — like so many relatives before him — to head north.

Quinones-Hinojosa picked cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes, and lived in the fields in a broken-down camper he bought for $300. When his cousin told him he would be a farmworker for the rest of his life, he realized it was time to move on.

He signed up for English classes at a community college, where a teacher encouraged him to attend the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley on a scholarship, Quinones-Hinojosa developed a passion for the scientific method. He went on to Harvard Medical School, where he eventually delivered the commencement speech. It is also during this time that he received his U.S. citizenship.

As broadcast on the Sunday, May 6 edition of "All Things Considered," Quinones' story was a shameless endorsement of illegal border crossing. You can still hear a podcast by going to:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=10013111

The implied message was: "All illegal aliens have the potential to become the fine citizen this man has become." However, if you listened to him at all closely, you wouldn't think Senor Quinones was such a fine citizen. He was all about self-aggrandizement, and he couldn't have been more contemptuous of immigration law. Here is the letter I emailed to NPR regarding this corporate-sponsored piece of propaganda:

This was yet another thinly-veiled attempt by the mainstream media to make people comfortable with illegal immigration and open borders. Senor Quinones-Hinojosa got away with sneaking into our country, and NPR rewarded him for it with a feature story. Shame on you! He was clearly unrepentant about having entered this country illegally. I was appalled to hear how he portrayed his determination to violate our borders as a lesson in the importance of perseverence. The nerve of the man, throwing his crime in our faces like that! He should never have been made a citizen. We will come to regret assimilating into our society people like him who have a "so what?" mentality regarding American law.

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