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by Brent Bozell, President of Media Research Center
A few weeks ago, the pollsters for NBC and The Wall Street Journal asked this question:
“If thousands of immigrants in the U.S. do not show up for work on May 1 in protest of immigration policy, do you think this will do more to help their cause, do more to hurt their cause, or have no real effect either way?” Fifty-seven percent said it would hurt their cause. Only 17 percent said it would help.
But that point is being roundly and deliberately ignored by the national media. Tossed and turned by internal diversity police who demand a greater minority presence and minority consciousness in the newsrooms, those who report the “news” are doing their level best to ensure that the protesters for “immigrant rights” get the best possible publicity boost…
The media insist the controversy is not over the protesters, it’s over Congress for failing to accede to the illegal-alien lobby’s demands. On CBS, morning show host Hannah Storm pressed Sen. Bill Frist: “Monday, over one million immigrants skipped work and skipped school and marched in streets across America. What is it going to take, Senator, for Congress to come together and institute some meaningful immigration reform?”
“Meaningful immigration reform” simply means amnesty for illegal aliens, and encouraging more illegal immigration in the future. These people seem to have no finger on the pulse of average Americans, who don’t like illegal-alien cheaters having the audacity to first come into the country illegally, and then demand their “rights.”
Reporters don’t ask the question: Doesn’t the rally present a terrific opportunity to round up and arrest illegal aliens for deportation? (More public opinion ignored: MSNBC made this their unscientific online poll question, and two-thirds said yes.) Don’t the businesses shutting down for the rally suggest terrific targets for immigration enforcement visits? Couldn’t some reporter somewhere ask of our political leaders, “What's it going to take, Senator, for Congress to come together and institute some meaningful immigration enforcement?”
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