Media bias-related Immigration News Archives Digest
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October 08, 2008
In the past there were PIIPPs. Now, a growing number of articles about immigration raids and the like are employing a device that I'll henceforth refer to as the use of SVRs: the "Sympathetic Victim/Representative". When an immigration raid occurs, instead of interviewing the local residents who saw their wages...
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June 18, 2008
Nicole Bode of the New York Daily News offers "Deportation to Senegal leaves Sory Fofana's family in pain" (link): Eleven-year-old Fanta Fofana spoke barely above a whisper as she described the day immigration officers burst into her Bronx apartment and took her dad. "I was sleeping with my sisters and...
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September 19, 2007
Via this we get this press release from Xiomara Corpeno and Cheryl Aguilar of the Center for Community Change: As the United States Senate is expected to take up consideration of the DREAM Act as an amendment on the Senate floor, several immigrant youth will join national organizations and coalitions...
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Douglas McGray (douglasmcgray.com, dmcgray *at* comcast.net) of the New America Foundation offers "A uniquely American DREAM" (link), a guest editorial supporting the anti-American DREAM Act. In addition to being a massive and nearly unlimited amnesty, that bill - currently attached to a defense bill - would allow illegal aliens to...
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August 05, 2007
On yesterday's CBS Evening News, Kelly Cobiella offered a slab of pro-illegal immigration propaganda entitled "Teens Lobby Hill For New Immigration Bill" (link) about the two illegal alien brothers pushing for the anti-American DREAM Act. See the story from Tim Padgett of Time for the background on the case, and...
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August 03, 2007
The DREAM Act is an explicitly anti-American bill that would allow illegal aliens to take discounted college educations from U.S. citizens. Corrupt newspapers and "reporters" have offered a long line of propaganda pieces - called around here "PIIPPs" - in support of the legislation. That propaganda is invariably strongly biased...
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May 23, 2007
Samuel G. Freedman of the New York Times offers "Immigration Raid Leaves Sense of Dread in Hispanic Students": [...Eleven highly emotional paragraphs describing the feds picking up two illegal aliens from the house of two legal immigrants...] Such was the triumph of Operation Cross Check, the federal raid against illegal...
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April 24, 2007
The following PIIPP has been spotted; see the other posts in this category for other examples of "pro-illegal immigration propaganda". Reporter: Vanessa Bauza Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel Date: April 23 2007 Title: "For young undocumented immigrants, 'Dream Act' offers avenue to success" link Contact: vbauza *at* sun-sentinel.com, 954-356-4514 Student last...
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April 03, 2007
Jessie Mangaliman of Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News offers "Close-knit S.J. immigrant family lives in constant dread of breakup", concerning a mixed-status family with most of the members being here legally but the eldest daughter being here illegally. He does include a quote from Steven Camarota of the Center for...
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March 11, 2007
Christopher Smart of the Salt Lake Tribune offers "With parents deported to India, Utah teen finds comfort in spelling": How do you spell "perseverance?" When 13-year-old Kunal Sah stands before television cameras May 30-31 to represent Utah - for the second time - at the National Spelling Bee in Washington,...
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February 18, 2007
Randy James of the Waterbury Republican-American offers a PIIPPish article entitled "Illegals seek tuition break". On the 13th, several people traveled to Hartford, Connecticut to support a bill that would give them those breaks. As with similar articles, it starts with the tear-jerking: Victoria Perez traveled to the state Capitol...
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January 05, 2007
A pro-illegal immigration series the Washington Post did in December of last year is described here. Five WaPo writers wrote three articles telling the story of an illegal alien who fled from cops and fell from a bridge. As you might expect, the WaPo did a complicated dance around his...
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December 31, 2006
The new movie "Children of Men" is set in England in 2027 and appears to be a vehicle for leftwing propaganda, in particular that designed to support illegal immigration. The director/screenwriter is Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron ("Y tu mama tambien") [1], and it's based on a book by PD James. In...
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December 09, 2006
Todd Spivak of the Houston Press offers "Shorthanded: Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops". As you might have imagined, it's yet another in a long line of the "crops rotting in the fields because we can't get enough illegal aliens" articles. As in the...
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November 29, 2006
James Poniewozik is Time's TV critic, and he offers a ludicrous slab of pro-illegal immigration propaganda in "Ugly, the American". It's about the 'Ugly Betty' TV show: ...Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey....
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October 29, 2006
Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone offers his list of the 10 worst Congressmen. As you might expect from that publication, it's biased (9 of 10 are Republicans) and their complaints consist mainly of lightweight analysis and smears. Let's take a look at their entry on Rep. Tom Tancredo. It includes...
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October 10, 2006
Miranda Vagg of the "Greater Niagara Newspapers" group (printed in New York's "Lockport Union-Sun & Journal") offers a slab of pro-illegal immigration propaganda called "IMMIGRATION RAIDS: Local farmers reeling from busts". It bears many of the hallmarks of similar stories: * growers whine about crops rotting in the fields due...
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September 26, 2006
A rather obscure form of pro-illegal immigration propaganda involves the claim that it's bad all over and encourages those complaining about the effects of massive legal and/or illegal immigration to stop being racist scapegoaters of immigrants and just accept their fate. In keeping with that obscurity, here it is from...
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September 22, 2006
It looks like Katie Couric is spreading pro-illegal immigration propaganda. Last night, CBS Evening News' "freeSpeech" segment featured an illegal alien whose identity was concealed. This was the video version of one of the other PIIPPs ("pro-illegal immigration puff pieces") discussed in this category, and like many of the others...
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August 21, 2006
A discussion of foreign sources that support illegal immigration is a bit rare around here, but Catherine Philp is a U.S.-based reporter for The Australian, so if you run into her you might want to ask her about the article "Whites drive out Latinos who saved their town". Yes, that's...
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July 25, 2006
Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press offers a PIIPP entitled "Illegal immigrants find room at colleges": SAN FRANCISCO – When he started high school, Matias Bernal's English was so limited he stumbled over the words for numbers and colors. Four years later, he was on the wait list at Princeton....
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July 08, 2006
Macarena Hernandez of the Dallas Morning News offers a PIIPP ("pro-illegal immigration puff piece") called "Good kids are counting on Dream Act". As described below, this article is extremely similar to other articles in this genre. About the only difference is that most start with the sucker punch; in the...
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June 26, 2006
No, really. If you're like me, the phrase "truth, justice, and..." ends in "the American way." But, apparently the latest Superman movie has changed it to "Truth, justice and... all of that stuff." As detailed here (via this), that was an intentional move by two of the film's writers in...
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The New York Times' Nina Bernstein - a frequent author of pro-illegal immigration propaganda - is back with the three-screener "On Lucille Avenue, the Immigration Debate". It tells the story of illegal immigration opponent Patrick Nicolosi, who's portrayed as a busy-body who complains to the local authorities about local illegal...
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May 23, 2006
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...
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April 20, 2006
Searching through blogs, I ran across a new-to-me site, which says: This Sacramento Bee article really made me start to think about my position on illegal immigration. I'm a strong opponent of general amnesty and extending government services to illegal aliens... That being said, when I read this article, I...
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April 09, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle reporter Tyche Hendricks offers a pro-illegal immigration puff piece in the article "Stakes High for Families". As you can see by looking at the other articles in that category, all these propaganda pieces start the same way. In the current instance: When Anna Salazar was first dating...
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February 21, 2006
That reporter offers "Migrants say they'll stay, legally or not". It's a highly-skewed "news" piece that doesn't look beyond the plight of those who came here illegally. It doesn't even have any quotes from those who support our laws, and it doesn't discuss things like political corruption....
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January 30, 2006
Yet another PIIPP from the AP: M.M. is a small man and he speaks softly, but he wants his words to be heard. M.M. -- he asked that he be identified only by his initials because immigration authorities could deport him if they find him -- has lived in the...
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January 21, 2006
This site extends congratulations to Long Island Newsday's Bart Jones over being selected as a co-winner of the Third Annual VDARE.COM Worst Immigration Coverage Award. He was selected for his work on that paper's "Immigration Q&A" column, and his co-author Mae Cheng shares the award. Note that Jones' news reports...
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January 12, 2006
Order a new batch of hankies, because the NYT has a new PIIPP ("pro-illegal immigration puff piece"). It's called "More and More, Women Risk All to Enter U.S." and it's from Lizette Alvarez and John M. Broder. Here's the first paragraph of this specimen: It took years for Normaeli Gallardo,...
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December 06, 2005
The Houston Chronicle and the Lowell Sun recently published two stories that not only seem to qualify as pro-illegal immigration propaganda, but they're also very similarly structured. I've compared the first three paragraphs below. If they're willing to publish stories like this, should you trust anything else you read in...
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December 05, 2005
Jon Vessey is a California grower who's been quoted in a few recent articles about how crops will rot in the fields unless growers get more cheap labor to pick it. On 11/21, the WaPo featured him in "Shortage of Immigrant Workers Alarms Growers in West", and today the Los...
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November 02, 2005
From Bill Mandates Youngsters Learn Spanish: From The Tampa Tribune: All Florida students in kindergarten through second grade would get mandatory Spanish lessons starting in 2007 under a new bill filed by state Sen. Les Miller, D-Tampa. "More and more of our young people need to learn a second language,"...
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September 19, 2005
One of the sub-category of PIIPPs ("pro-illegal immigration puff pieces") is that which promotes illegal aliens getting home loans using ITINs instead of SSNs. The Palm Beach Post has printed the latest in this long line, entitled "New mortgage rules help open doors for immigrants". They've found a twist: the...
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September 09, 2005
The post "NYT: Devastating hurricane hits Gulf Coast; illegal aliens hardest hit" was such a big hit, let's now discuss the AP's "Illegal immigrants afraid to get storm aid" from E. Eduardo Castillo: Some sneak into shelters at night and then slip out in the morning, praying they won't be...
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July 29, 2005
Seattle Times editorial columnist Kate Riley offers us "Putting a human face on the immigration debate". Like many other PIIPPs ("pro-illegal immigration puff pieces") it supports Orrin Hatch (R-UT)'s anti-American DREAM Act. That Act would take discounted college educations away from U.S. citizens and give them to illegal aliens. What...
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July 26, 2005
[A "PIIPP" is a "pro-illegal immigration puff piece". Considering all of the almost identical "news" pieces supporting the Dream Act and similar in various newspapers, I should replace "puff piece" with "puff propaganda".] Source: Chicago Tribune Title: "A graduation day with hazy prospects" "Reporter": Lolly Bowean Date: July 24, 2005...
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July 12, 2005
Now that's a twist! As previously discussed, Suffolk County (Long Island New York) executive Steve Levy has begun cracking down on clown houses containing dozens of illegal aliens. The press coverage from the "so-called" liberal media has not been kind, including weepy puff pieces from Bart Jones of Newsday. What...
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July 07, 2005
After reading the report "Mexican nationals learn how to transfer funds electronically" I'm left wondering. It describes how local banks (presumably chartered in the U.S.) set up booths in front of the Mexican consulate in Ventura to teach "immigrants" how to send money back home. Like other such reports, it...
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July 06, 2005
To help you answer that question, take a look at the article "Plates help Aztec descendants become citizens" from Timothy Pratt. It concerns a group called the Citizenship Project led by one Rev. Phil Carolin, which helps immigrants fill out citizenship paperwork and the like. That organization (whose full name...
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July 05, 2005
Many years ago, a Mad Magazine cartoon featured a yesterday/today contrast: on the left side it showed a group of New York cops in the past, with one guy off to the side, shunned by the others. One of those in the large group was saying, "That's Bob, he's on...
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June 21, 2005
Bart Jones is Newsday's immigration reporter, but he has a problem and he needs your help. Bart has trouble locating the United States border. If only Jones could find the border, he wouldn't have named his latest Strutherseque work "Dozens of men now left with nowhere to go": The man...
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June 19, 2005
Dear public *at* nytimes.com: Your June 19, 2005 tale "For Illegal Immigrants, a Harsh Lesson" made me cry. As soon as I read the first paragraph, I could feel my sympathy begin welling: Esteban Navarro's disappearance broke a lot of hearts at Trenton Central High School, where the dropout rate...
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May 08, 2005
The NY Daily News is a repeat offender, having published other PIIPPs ("pro-illegal immigration puff pieces") in the past. Their latest ("Best & brightest in bind") starts with this: Carlos will graduate with honors from Brooklyn College next month with a mathematics degree. It's a subject he loves and hopes...
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February 27, 2005
The Columbian Missourian has a splashy article entitled "Pursuing the American Dream" complete with three custom, USA Today-style graphics. Exactly how many readers can there be in Columbia, MO? Are they trying to sell this to other papers? Trying for a Pulitzer? Keep trying....
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Nothing like a New Jersey PIIPP: Source: Trenton Times URL: this Date: Saturday, February 26, 2005 "Reporter": Eva Loayza TRENTON - Mayra Ovalle's words are heavy with resignation and defeat. Her husband was arrested in the couple's home almost two weeks ago by federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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February 17, 2005
Nina Bernstein - the NYT's answer to Sally Struthers - offers us "Caught Between Parents and the Law". Apparently the barrage of letters to Daniel Okrent have had an effect, because none of the usual euphemisms or outright lies jumped out at me. Nevertheless, I keep getting the feeling that,...
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October 11, 2004
A PIIPP ("pro-illegal immigration puff piece") has been spotted in NYC, but for a change it's not from the NYT. From NY Newsday's "Driven by DMV alert" by Robert Polner: When Jose, a house painter, got the letter at his Brooklyn home this summer, he panicked. He was among 600,000...
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October 06, 2004
Education Week inadvertently lets us know how PIIPPs ("pro-illegal immigration puff pieces") are born. The piece "Immigrant Grads Get Charter’s Help" contains the following: Educators at a charter school in California have gone to extra lengths to make sure that undocumented immigrant students who graduate from the school receive financial...
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September 26, 2004
A possible PIIPP ("pro-illegal immigration puff piece") has been spotted in the Lincoln (NE) JournalStar. Here's the first paragraph of "Dozens rally to support proposed immigration law": Oscar Rios Pohirieth dreads the conversation he's had again and again with some of Lincoln's Hispanic high school students. Yes, it starts like...
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Nina Bernstein, the NYT's immigration reporter, is truly "Old Skool" NYT. As in: "Meteor to hit Earth; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit." Her latest piece is "New York Considers One-Year Driving Permits for Immigrants". From the piece, we learn the following "facts": - "an immigrant without legal status" is a cute...
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September 13, 2004
My offshore PIIPP processing team is still being trained, so I'm not able to process this article immediately. However, I'm presenting it here for readers who would like a preview. (For those who aren't familiar with the term, a PIIPP is a "pro-illegal immigration puff piece." Several example PIIPPs are...
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September 01, 2004
As you'll recall, a PIIPP is a "pro-illegal immigration puff piece." It must advocate for illegal immigration and the person to whom we're to feel Sally Struthers-level sympathy for must appear in the first sentence. And, I believe I've spotted the PIIPP to end all PIIPPs in the New York...
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August 14, 2004
"PIIPP" refers to a "pro-illegal immigration puff piece," and a classic of the genre has been spotted in the NYT. The author is Nina Bernstein, and the article is entitled "From Immigrants, Stories Of Scrutiny, and Struggle": As a Muslim immigrant growing up in New York, Navila Ali, 20, felt...
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August 05, 2004
I ran across yet another PIIPP ("pro-illegal immigration puff piece"), and it's a classic of the genre. Not only is it a virtual advertisement for the DREAM Act, and not only does it mention only one minor dissent, it features a quote from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. From the...
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July 11, 2004
A brief summary of the rules: a "pro-illegal immigration puff piece" (hereinafter "PIIPP") must mention the name of the person we're to feel Sally Struthers-level sympathy for in the first sentence and must be full of lies and/or vapid platitudes. Bart Jones, the immigration reporter for Long Island's Newsday, appears...
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July 05, 2004
You read enough newspaper reports about immigration, and you start noticing certain patterns. For instance, I've read several articles that have all or most of the following characteristics: They're all designed to make massive illegal immigration acceptable. They're all based on one or two sympathetic illegal aliens. Those aliens are...
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April 22, 2003
The S.F. Chronical has an editorial ("Naturalizing the dead") that attempts to piggyback their pro-illegal-immigration position onto the backs of the legal residents who fought and died in Iraq: SIX IMMIGRANT soldiers from California have been granted citizenship for their heroic contributions to the U.S. victory in Iraq. Too bad...
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