January 25, 2007

If you can't trust a Spanish-language radio station, who can you trust?

La Ley 107.9 FM ("The Law") is a Chicago radio station owned by Spanish Broadcasting System. In 2005 they held a promotion to give away a Corvette, but the winner was an illegal alien and she's currently suing the company and their lawyer. The latter, one James Cuevas, sent a letter to the winner:

"I will caution you that if you insist on filing suit against SBS, I will in turn be forced to refer this matter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as I believe your client is in this country illegally. Please communicate that to your client for her consideration."

According to the company, they were just misunderstood, and we're told that they also refer to themselves as a "champion for Latinos and the legalization of undocumented immigrants". In fact, one of their DJs ("El Chokolate") was apparently one of the organizers of at least one of the Chicago marches for illegal immigration.

This is similar to the Toys R Us case, and of course some may recall the KRCA billboard issue.

UPDATE: Sean Hannity seems to think that because the rules of the contest said she had to be present to win, but because her presence here was not lawful, then the radio station is justified on those grounds alone from not giving her the prize. My explanation: Sean is in a bidding war between the Bush administration and the Dems. The latter want to hire him away to make the former look even worse.

Posted to Immigration2007a at January 25, 2007 10:23 AM

Comments

Give her the car. Put Elvira in the passenger seat. ICE can escort them both back to mexico. Confiscate the car at the border. Bye-bye!

Posted by: jeebie at January 25, 2007 11:12 AM