Los Angeles Daily News opposes border wall, wins canard contest

Posted Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:37 am

The L.A. DailyNews offers "Wall of shame: House immigration bill is all stick, no carrot". What's striking about it is that they offer no new canards, just a recitation of those we've come to know and love. In fact, it could almost have been autogenerated.

They support a "comprehensive solution", telling us that "enforcement alone [cannot] end illegal immigration" and that we need to create "sufficient opportunities for legal entry and earned citizenship."

And, they tell us that that would:

"free up law enforcement to focus its energies on criminals, gang members and terrorists."

Now, compare that with Our Leader's October comments:

"The fewer people trying to sneak in to work means it's more likely we're going to catch drug smugglers and terrorists and gun runners."

They also use the immigrants-living-in-the-shadows meme. Twice. And, those illegal aliens living here now are "intricately intertwined with their communities and the nation's economy".

Then, channeling Asa Hutchinson, they say it's "simply not realistic to think that the government can round up and deport these people."

And, they unwittingly give the strongest reason against a "guest" worker scheme, pointing out that many of those illegal aliens here now "have children who are American citizens."

Sometime soon I hope to have a new site operational which will discuss each of these oft-repeated canards, and including links to those who use them so we can see exactly who's on the other side.

Comments

Noel I. Doran (not verified)

Thu, 12/22/2005 - 20:46

Evidently, no one seems to realize that these poor innocent children born in the USA are also citizens of the country of birth of the parents. no-one is making this connection and I believe that realizing this should take away one of the specious arguments that the do gooders make. Of course, remember, it's a wise child that knows it's own father. connect with my blog if you will. www.ndorans-point-of-view.blog-city.com

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Thu, 12/22/2005 - 14:36

"Yes, it does seem that most mainstream media reporters and editorialists are not deep or broad thinkers."
More likely those who do not toe the PeeCee line on immigration are systematically excluded from these positions. Probably some of these functionaries hold contrary opinions but "know the buttered side from the dry". Bush and the neocons are now feigning a partial split from the orthodoxy, but no one with any sense believes them.

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Thu, 12/22/2005 - 11:01

Thye great Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld is a great fan of walls. Below from a 2002 interview.
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s511530.htm
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Van Creveld:

D Flinchum (not verified)

Thu, 12/22/2005 - 03:03

Correct as usual,eh.
Plus let's not forget that reporters and editors are not - so far - in danger of losing their jobs to our "cheap" labor immigrants. Also it is much easier to call those of us who oppose this invasion xenophobic racists than it is to come up with good, factual reasons why we should welcome it.

eh (not verified)

Wed, 12/21/2005 - 22:18

Yes, it does seem that most mainstream media reporters and editorialists are not deep or broad thinkers. Also, they are seemingly not very concerned about how all of this immigration of the unskilled affects their own countrymen who are part of the same labor market. Perhaps they are not very observant, either -- after all, the social problems this is causing are pretty obvious, right?

Then again it may just be another, especially pernicious form of racially sensitive political correctness -- the fact that most of the immigrants, legal and illegal, are non-white, and if you say anything derogatory about them, or more generally about what is going on, then you must be a racist.

Subcomandante Bob (not verified)

Wed, 12/21/2005 - 11:52

National Nitwit breaks the story of plans to augment the border wall.

National Nitwit - guaranteed at least 50% truthful.