How to read illegal immigration articles in the mainstream media!

Bias in covering the illegal immigration issue prevalent in the mainstream media. Here on Long Island Newsday is notorious in their biased coverage of the issue along with Cablevision's News 12 newschannel. Both of these corporate media outlets have a vested interest in the illegal immigrant population growing as they have interests in Spanish language media. The latest show of bias comes in today's Washington Post in an article written by Sylvia Moreno.

It starts with the headline: "Immigration Raid Leaves Texas Town a Skeleton" making it appear that enforcement of U.S. immigration laws is a bad thing.
It should have have read: "Raids Show Extent of Illegal Immigration Problem in U.S."

There are other signs of how big the problem regarding the influx of illegal immigrants into communities like Cactus Texas that are buried in the article. Like this little tidbit shoved down into paragraph ten:

"Some local officials recently said that 75 percent of the city's estimated 5,000 residents before the raid were illegal immigrants. Aguilar disputes that, saying it was only 15 percent."


If I were a legal resident in Cactus I would be concerned that even 15% of the residents were criminals who violated U.S. law. But, it turns out the Mr. Aguilar who tries to downplay the lower amount of illegal residents in his community is also the Mayor. In fact he was also an illegal immigrant himself at one time. But, thanks to the 1986 amnesty was granted citizenship and now also has a vested interest in keeping the illegal immigrant population in the town high . As this quote in paragraph eight shows:

"These are my people," said Aguilar, 50, who today owns the largest house in Cactus, a nearby 575-acre ranch, a laundromat and the town's only full-fledged grocery store. About half of his 26 rental units are empty now."

You need to read all the way down to paragraph thirteen to see why the raids occurred in the first place:

"But authorities charge that these immigrants had false identity documents, enabling them to get driver's licenses and jobs illegally, victimizing U.S. citizens and fueling the fraudulent document industry. Traffic stops or crime reports became confusing events in Cactus in recent years. Immigrants would offer two names, said former Cactus Police Chief Tim Turley. The had "el verdadero," as they called it -- the true name -- and their work name."

Translation these illegals where not only in the country illegally they also used identity theft to get jobs in the country. These are felony criminals in addition to being illegal immigrants. While people Mayor Aguilar chooses to look the other way and not enforce U.S. law and mainstream media outlets continue to downplay the problem it is up to the law abiding citizens of this country to say enough is enough and make people respect our laws including immigration by enforcing them.