Thread: PBS/NPR now running biased TV/Radio series on immigration

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This week, KQED, the local PBS/NPR station in San Francisco, is running
a series of TV and radio programs on immigration. This evening they ran
a program, Immigration Calculations. It may show up on your local PBS
station in the future, but you can watch it now at

http://www.kqed.org/topics/history/immi ... ations.jsp

The word "calculations" in the title is an allusion to the debate on the
costs and benefits of immigration. The message is that it's all a net
plus. In particular, the program tells us that we don't have enough
H-1Bs, and that we are on the verge of losing the "outstanding talents"
of those profiled in the presentation.

For the high-skilled side, the program profiles a nice young couple from
India, both H-1Bs, and a likeable young man from Africa (visa status not
stated). Good for them, but the operative word here is YOUNG. It is so
often overlooked in the H-1B debate that H-1B is largely about AGE.
Younger workers cost less, and young H-1Bs cost even less than young
Americans, so the primary losers are the Americans over age 40 or even
35. When employers say, as the CEO of H5 does in the program, that
Americans can't be found for his jobs, he means that he can't find
young, cheap Americans.

So, when the program laments that it took two months (portrayed as a
long time) and the mailing of 50 re'sume's (portrayed as huge) for the
African to get a job as a chemist, that has a hollow ring for older U.S.
citizens and permanent residents who search for more than a year and
send out hundreds of CVs but end up empty-handed.

These immigrants are described as "the best and the brightest," doing
jobs that Americans aren't qualified for. Yet the Indian man is doing
very ordinary work (Quality Assurance, a fancy name for software
testing), and appears to have very ordinary background (MBA from a
nonprestigious school). The Indian woman came to the U.S. to work on
the Y2K problem, again very ordinary work. She works for Deloitte now,
and based on my experience I suspect that they hired her in part to
serve as a bridge to offshore work to India.

The narrator of the program says that they turned to "experts" to
comment on the immigrants profiled. Well, two of those "experts" are
from the Public Policy Institute of California, and the third, Dean
Annalee Saxenian of UC Berkeley, has close ties to PPIC (she has written
several reports for them, and presumably has funding from them). What
the viewer of this program has not been told is that (a) PPIC has always
taken a pro-H-1B stance and (b) PPIC is funded by Wm. Hewlett,
co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, and much of PPIC's endowment consists of
Hewlett-Packard stock.

Critics of expansive immigration policies are described condescendingly
as being ignorant of economics. The accompanying visuals of snarling
people protesting amnesty for the undocumented are clearly meant to
convey that all critics of immigration policies are racist and
xenophobic.

In short, the program is extremely biased, and is typical of the slick
PR machine that the industry and immigration lawyers use to indoctrinate
the populace.

Norm

Time to contact your local PMS/NPR affiliate and tell them that due to their radical liberal attitudes and their support for illegal immigration that you will never contribute to a single one of their many fund drives.

Here it comes......... All of them, cbs,pbs,nbc,and abc, are going to do this.. You will see more and more "stories" on how great immigration is for America.... Then at the same time you will see an undermining of American values and rule of law....

Don't forget something like 70% of America thought Justus Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill... That was after 4 years of getting hammered by the "news".... At the time no one thought Justus Thomas did anything... Sad but true..................

So we have to keep on the offensive.........

We can also contact the station ombudsman and the program contacts for the shows, and question their journalistic integrity.