"License Denials for Immigrants Are Blocked"

The NYT's Nina Bernstein is back with another misleading advocacy piece masquerading as a "news" report.

From "License Denials for Immigrants Are Blocked":

A judge ordered yesterday that the state stop taking away the driver's licenses of immigrants in New York who do not have Social Security cards, saying that the Department of Motor Vehicles is not authorized to enforce immigration law or to make new rules without public notice...

[seven paragraphs deleted]

...Most are in the country without legal authorization, the court papers say, but two who are in the United States legally also were denied licenses by clerks without notice or chance for redress, the lawsuit said...

It took nine whole paragraphs until the NYT gave you a hint that they weren't talking about "immigrants" so much as "illegal aliens".

Nina Bernstein and her editors think it's OK to try to bury the fact that these "immigrants" are in fact "illegal aliens".

Please contact Daniel Okrent and ask that the NYT stops trying to mislead you: public *at* nytimes.com

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Immigration2005a · Thu, 02/17/2005 - 22:31 · · Importance: 1