Giovanna Dell'orto/AP: pro-illegal immigration propaganda on anchor babies
Giovanna Dell'orto of the AP offers "Citizenship by birthright up for debate". Here's the first, PIIPPish paragraph:
Laila Montezuma was 16 when she sneaked across the Rio Grande from Mexico with her mother, only to be abandoned by the smuggler paid to get them into the United States. They had to hire another "coyote" to reach Houston.
The article goes downhill from there, showing how the AP has reduced the "debate" to the level of a Sally Struthers infomercial.
Out of its 22 paragraphs, here's the breakdown:
* 11 deal with 4 sympathetic illegal alien victims and their heartwrenching stories;
* 6 offer biased background information
* 2 are devoted to supporters; one of those features a quote from the Migration Policy Institute
* 3 are devoted to opponents, including a quote from Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA)
That's "balanced" according to the AP's guidelines.
Comments
Fred Dawes (not verified)
Tue, 05/30/2006 - 07:54
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the third world people love whats here but do not love the place called America, And the people of the third world will help to make
"the North American Union" a fact of life and death for some; and the place we call America will become one big mexico with race laws and hate and all the ideals of evil. thank you Birth Tourism.
morganfreebase (not verified)
Tue, 05/23/2006 - 20:37
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Just to let you know I appreciate you compiling all this data and making this info available...good job.
Pat (not verified)
Tue, 05/23/2006 - 06:02
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And some people don't even bother to pretend to want to become part of America. They come here specifically to give birth and get citizenship for the baby so he will not have to serve in the military, for instance, in Korea or to enable the whole family to emigrate when they want.
Birth Tourism