Jay Newton-Small/Time misleads about immigration (Huckabee, Tancredo, INS)

A minor example of how Time magazine and the rest of the MSM mislead and/or don't understand immigration issues is presented in "Tancredo's Single-Issue Victory" (link):
...By basics [U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo] means forcing all illegal immigrants to go home and reapply to enter the country legally if they want to return, making English the national language and denying municipal services for illegal aliens such as driver's licenses, Social Security benefits and state-subsidized education. Huckabee has come under particular fire for backing college-level grants for the children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas. "We are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did," said Huckabee, defending his stance, in a Florida debate last month...

Tancredo has announced he is also not running for reelection for his Congressional seat. His immediate plans, he said, are to hang out with his grandkids, stump for Romney and finish his last year in office. After that, who knows? Romney may one day need to appoint a head of Immigration and Naturalization Services.
1. "forcing" would seem to imply some form of mass deportations; Tancredo actually supports attrition which might be better described as "encouraging".

2. I don't believe Tancredo supports ending "state-subsidized education" for K-12, especially since that was decided on by the Supreme Court (thanks to Peter Schey). He does oppose college-level discounts for illegal aliens.

3. Huck's program, as discussed at the link, was irrespective of their parents' status(es), and that misleading formulation has been used many times in the MSM. Even the WaPo has corrected that formulation.

4. Jay Newton Small includes a quote from Huck, but as with Joseph Berger of the NYT she doesn't include the response from Mitt Romney regarding discounts being a finite resource.

5. The INS hasn't existed for over four years.

2/21/12 UPDATE: I don't know whether it was a typo or not, but I corrected a reference to JNS as a "he".

Comments

what's new? the system wants mexico here, so what don't you get about rats? after all just look at what the pigs have done on the borders, don't you people get it?

Chris: We need an article explaining the holding in Plyer v. Doe. The case holds that illegal immigrant children cannot be denied K-12 public education. The case does not say, however, that school district or local government officials may not report the names of the children (and their parents) to Immigration & Customs Enforcement. KAB

Question for Jay Newton: Is making an extra [declining] buck really more important than the Nation ass-a-whole?

Jay Newton-Small is a woman. Good luck in your quest to learn and refine your views using both knowledge and wisdom.