Daniel Hartman, a junior at Tufts University who wrote this excellent illegal immigration editorial. I know from experience that penning right-wing articles at an institution of higher learning is simply asking to be lynched; kudos to Hartman for speaking his mind anyway. Hartman is also the president of Tufts Republicans...show them some love.
Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), an Arizona State Rep., who is behind some of the nation's toughest immigration laws and is continuing to fight illegal immigration tooth and nail. Ignore the fact that the NPR article is terribly biased against him (because NPR has no idea how to be unbiased); this man is a putting forth an example lawmakers all over the country (especially those in Washington) should follow.
Zeros:
TIME, for publishing this garbage. The article is basically an altar of praise for a new Colombian movie that is coming out that is supposed to show us ignorant Americans all the terrible things illegals go through trying to get here. I'm sorry; do I care what happens to foreign invaders violating our laws? Not particularly, no. Maybe they should stay on their side of the Rio Grande, or maybe, just maybe, follow the laws and come here legally.
On top of the fact that the movie itself looks like a great pro-illegal piece of rhetoric (I can't completely judge because obviously I haven't seen it), my main beef is with how TIME presented it in this article. Using lines like these:
There is a hellish scene in the new Colombian film Paraiso Travel that should be watched by any American who has ever hired illegal immigrants —and, for that matter, any American who has ever shouted for their deportation. A group of weary Colombian migrants, having waded across a rushing river from Guatemala to Mexico, is violently set upon by the Maras, bloodthirsty gangbangers who prowl that border corridor. Men are shot, women are raped, children are terrorized. It's an almost daily occurrence of migrant life in this hemisphere, and the film captures it with haunting authenticity.
The opening of the article. Yes, that certainly sounds awful. Would it have happened if they hadn't immigrated to the country illegally? No. So now we are supposed to watch this movie and that get New Age-ish guilt that everyone is supposed to feel when they see stuff like this, but this situation is not like an Iraqi Death Squad attack or a Rwanda killing field...this is completely brought on by these people coming across borders illegally. Do it right, or don't do it at all.
Immigration cranks like Lou Dobbs
Smooth, unbiased journalism at its best.
...the latter cause xenophobes to ignore the causes of illegal immigration — the deep poverty down there and the deep demand for cheap labor up here — and block the necessary and reasonable proposals for managing it
Xenophobes? Again with that unbiased journalism; great to see it.
Oh, and last year's shamnesty bill was NOT a reasonable proposal
Not that Paraiso Travel doesn't also depict the uplifting immigrant success stories and the broad economic benefits the U.S. derives from its underground workforce.
Yeah, the massive strain placed on our medical and education facilities is one of those economic benefits that I just couldn't do without. Every morning, I wake up and say, thank you world, for allowing me to pay more taxes so that illegal migrants can go to the emergency room for a cold and get free tuition for their 10,000 kids. I don't know what I would do with that money if I didn't fritter it away paying for a bunch of criminals to live in my country.
"I'm fortunate to live in the U.S. legally," says producer Santiago Diaz, a Bogota native, "but we all know people living here illegally, and their story should be told. We made this film for them."
Wow, you made a film about illegals for illegals. Scintillating. Would you mind telling their story to the INS?
And perhaps another: is our immigration dysfunction really worth the human pain it causes migrants and the political pain it causes us?
The pain it causes migrants? They bring it on themselves by coming here illegally. My heart bleeds not for he who brings about his own struggles.
Oh, sure, they have a couple of wet-noodle comments aimed at illegal immigration apologists, but overall, it's easy to tell where the writer's sympathies lie. Even the title of the article is a giveaway: "An Honest Look At Illegal Immigration," when it's a movie created by a Colombian who expresses sympathy for illegals. Please.
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