Anna Gorman/LAT: sob story to support illegal alien amnesty

Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times offers the Page 1 story "A family's painful split decision". Over four pages she tells the tale of two long-term illegal aliens (Abel Munoz and Zulma Miranda) who had three children in the U.S. They originally entered with a temporary visa, which they overstayed. They apparently took bad legal advice and tried to correct their status, but were eventually ordered deported. They say they didn't receive the notice. Then, one day ICE came to the door and they were forced to choose; they decided to move to Tijuana and leave the kids here. The case is similar to this other case that was whined about by another reporter.

The tale ends near this:

"Look at that sweater β€” it is half a sweater," [Munoz] said. "We can't even afford a whole sweater."

That follows the news that they own a $300,000 home. And, it follows Gorman glossing over various forms of illegal activity: overstaying a visa and "using a fake green card and Social Security number to get work when he first arrived in the country, and working as an electrician without a license."

Obviously, this is just a sob story designed to appeal to those who a susceptible to such techniques. And, just as obviously, if the "reform" that the Los Angeles Times supports passes, people like Gorman are still going to be out there, and there's almost no chance that they're going to take the pledge to stop featuring such sob stories. In fact, if "reform" passed, it probably would only be a few weeks before the various sob stories start designed to weaken the "reform". Those who support "reform" have shown their hands: what they're really after is a massive, continuing legalization program where anyone who makes it over the border and manages to stay here for a while gets to stay permanently.

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'Their attorney told them they would receive a letter telling them when they needed to leave the country. Miranda said they decided to wait for the letter and, when it arrived, defy the deportation order by selling the house and moving to another city' 'She and Muñoz think about trying to sneak across the border, but they worry about the risks.' Don't we all know what is going to happen next? Gorman should do a follow up story from the reunited family's new American residence (which she will keep a secret). The unstated but obvious policy goal of this writer is insta-green cards for parents issued upon the birth of the first anchor baby. The incentives and implications of such a policy are obvious but somehow fail to show up in these advocacy journalism personal sob stories. One of the primary biases in immigration 'reporting' is the prevalance of personal tales (almost always of woe). There are better versions such as: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quadruplets28jul28,0,931508.story?coll=la-home-headlines But if the goal is policy consideration, there needs to be a lot more 'big picture' questions asked. E.g., what about the inevitable environmental damage caused by population growth? What about how population growth combines a greater need for food with the conversion of farmland to create more housing and shopping. Is it wise to depend on food importation? See: http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_045190319.html What about how U.S. population growth also creates even greater dependence on foreign energy? These are national security issues! But instead we get tearjerkers designed to play exclusively to people's emotions, not their reason.

Has the L.A. Times ever done a sob story about, say, a displaced African American union janitor who lost his middle class job and benefits? The story behind that was covered last year in a documentary called The New Los Angeles and is mentioned briefly here: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecentersd1fb

_They apparently took bad legal advice..._ Yeah, it's always someone else's fault. I mean, all they wanted to do was stay in the US illegally -- who the hell are the American people to object? -- and some dumbass lawyer screwed it up. Again. You'd think with all the stories about immigrants getting bad legal advice, those lawyers would study up some. But no. They're only in it for the money, it seems. Hmm... _Has the L.A. Times ever done a sob story about, say, a displaced African American union janitor who lost his middle class job and benefits?_ Not sure, but I would guess not. It was not that long ago that they did a story about how many airport security jobs were being taken by, gasp, Whites. See, those jobs used to be low wage dead-ends, and, according to the LAT, 99% of them were held by non-Whites. Then post 9-11 the jobs were federalized: decent pay, decent benefits. So Whites applied, and were generally better qualified -- being mostly high school graduates etc. The LAT's disdain for the way that was developing was palpable. Anyway, some Blacks are starting to take notice of the impact of illegal immigration [1].

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[1] www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/17139597.htm

Its all part of the plan listen to Alex Jones and savage Nation.

I'd like to see a sob story about the five children in Houston who were permanently "seperated" from their father, a decorated policeman, when he was shot last fall by an illegal-alien piece of shit child molester who had already been deported to Mexico once already. Or how about a sob story about the wife and mother of the Christmas Story director and his son? They, too, were "seperated" from their loved ones -- don't they deserve a four-page sob story too? How about Amy Kortlang's mom or Cheryl Green's mom? These moms lost their young daughters to illegal alien murderers. Don't they deserve some sob stories about their "seperation" from their loved ones? I guess some "seperations" are more equal than others.

The other Mary, you will never see any kind of turth coming from the pigs who hate our freedoms and love evil doers, the fact is this nation if you can call it that? and its political rats want one thing and only one thing the people removed who made it great and a new people who are nothing but little rats who can be controlled. if the third worlds people are so good why is it that no third world country has become a great place to live? hey people it is all about people and ideals and the people of the third world have nothing to offer but more little kids and that is what the rats want mass population for mass enslavement for the money. Buy Guns be free!