The Media And our Government In Cahoots For Open Borders

I am not much of a CNN viewer or reader, but every once in a while, resident Illegal Immigration watchdog Lou Dobbs comes up with something worthwhile causing me to go to the site and click on that select reading or read a book or two.

For instance, the commentary below he offered up yesterday on the game the two dominant political parties and our media are in bed together shoving down he throats of we hard working tax paying Americans fed up with the same old same old from Washington on this issue.

I myself am sick and tired of the watered down vernacular used by the media and our government when talking about the illegals in their stories and columns and coddling legislation propositions.. Dobbs nails it with some stats on the word games played on us.

Dobbs: Big media hide truth about immigration - CNN.com:

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Bush administration and the leadership of the Democratic Party are preparing to take another legislative leap at imposing a massive illegal alien amnesty on American citizens.

And the mainstream media are complicit in advancing this thinly veiled blanket amnesty. Instead of asking and answering important questions about why our immigration laws aren't being enforced and why we're permitting pervasive document fraud, the national media seem hell-bent on trying to obfuscate the issue, shamelessly playing with language, equating legal immigration with illegal immigration while obviously trying to preserve the illusion of objectivity.

Too often, the language of the national media describes illegal immigration as "migration" and illegal aliens as "undocumented immigrants," even though many of them have lots of documents, most of which are fraudulent or stolen. Some media outlets have taken to calling illegal aliens "entrants." Whether such language is meant to engender sympathy or to intentionally blur the distinction between legal and illegal, the mainstream media are taking sides in this debate.

"The Arizona Republic, for example, used 'undocumented immigrant' more than 80 times in 36 separate stories in the past month alone; the term appeared as many as 12 times in one article on 'migration,' according to our Lexis-Nexis search. At the same time, 'illegal alien' appeared a total of only nine times during that span, with seven of the references coming from readers' opinions, one from a quotation and one from an editorial."read more

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