September 16, 2005

Jessie Mangaliman sits, listens to loonies decry Minuteman Project

Jessie Mangaliman of Knight Ridder offers us "Immigrants, leaders rally to decry Minutemen" which could have been written by the "immigrants" themselves. He basically just repeats their claims without any analysis. Then, as with other articles, he turns to the object of those groups' hate for their denial of the obviously false charges.

I need a new name for this type of propaganda, perhaps "Have you stopped oppressing immigrants" or similar.

This paragraph is typical:

In East Oakland, about 60 people, many of them immigrants, held a vigil in front of Centro Legal de la Raza, an immigrant legal advocacy organization. The group expressed solidarity with immigrants and attacked citizen border patrols as "hate-filled, white supremacists."

Let's all speculate on what a real reporter would do. In fact, let's contact the S.J. Merc and ask them.

Perhaps a real reporter would translate that group's name: "Legal Center of/for the Race". Or, they might wonder where those people came from: were they bused in by some other group? Where does the funding for the Center come from? And, of course, is calling them "immigrants" accurate, when what they want are benefits for illegal aliens?

And, there's this news:

A county resolution, recommended this summer by the county's Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission, is pending in committee and waiting recommendation for a vote later by the board of supervisors. If it is approved by the board, Santa Clara County could be the first municipal government in the state to take a formal stand against the Minuteman Project.

Other participants mentioned:

Rev. Jon Pedigo, "a San Jose pastor and member of People Acting in Community Together"

Salvador Bustamente, "regional vice president for the Service Employees International Union, Local 1877"

Larisa Casillas, "policy director for Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network"

Maria Jimenez, "director Mujeres Unidad e y Activas, a Latina women's group in Oakland"

Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition

Posted to Immigration2005b at September 16, 2005 04:14 PM

Comments

These leftists may be illiterate Mexicans in some cases, but even the most ignorant of them knows that there is no rational argument for socialism; and that they're only chance is to use fallacies like ad hominem against the supposed racists/supremacists/vigilantes. The reporter provided them with a forum for their racebaiting and their special pleading, but was apparently lacking in capacity of moral criticism, or considered the leftists as subhumans outside of morality.

Posted by: John S Bolton at September 16, 2005 05:58 PM