The L.A. Times: Distorters, Not Reporters, On Illegal Aliens
"Illegal - but Essential" is the headline of the latest L.A. Times article extolling the benefits of illegal immigration.The Times devotes two full pages, plus a sizeable chunk of Page One, explaining how terrible life would be without the millions of people who came into this country illegally.
The Times needed to publish the article because simple-minded people like you, with your outdated notions like "rule of law," don't understand that we desperately need illegal aliens. You see, they are vital to our economy, according to the article, because some unspecified percentage of them work, buy bottled water and Argentinian CD's, and hold down the price of dining out. That premise takes the Times two full pages to explain.
Oh, yes, and in passing, there are two paragraphs buried in the middle disclosing: (i) the California Hospital Association says that emergency room care for illegal aliens costs us $650 million PER YEAR; and (ii) the Center for the Coninuing Study of the California Economy estimates that educating the children of illegal aliens costs us $6 billion PER YEAR.
If the reporter bothered to include the costs -- both human and economic -- of crimes committed by illegal aliens, well, somehow that discussion didn't make it into the print edition of the paper. Nor did any quantitative analysis of the costs of the increased congestion the illegal aliens cause, or the increases in taxes to provide them with AFDC, food stamps, and medical care beyond emergency rooms. Ditto re the impact on students' test scores, and the amount of private school tuition that U.S. citizens in California are paying because the public schools have become such a nightmare.
But the most interesting fact omitted, given the title of the article, is how much money the publishers of the L.A. Times make from illegal aliens. You see, the Tribune Company owns "Hoy," a Spanish language newspaper published in L.A., Chicago and New York. The illegal aliens who read and advertise in that paper are indeed essential -- to the wealthy owners of the L.A. Times, who could not care less about the quality of your life, as long as their revenues keep rolling in. "Essential" means "essential to the publishers."
Posted by Walter Moore @ 10/01/2006 08:26:00 AM
22 Comments:
Good analysis Walter. The title should have been: "Illegal -- and Costly." Keep up your good work, and keep your skin thick for the inevitable (and fraudulent) attacks that you're somehow a "racist" for pointing out the costs and negatives borne by taxpayers and legal citizens.
For example, the Center for Immigration Studies outlines how in California, the net cost to the state of providing government services to illegal immigrants approached $3 billion during a single fiscal year. I wouldn't be surprised if the figure is higher.
Nice picture of Lenin reading the Moscow edition of the "LA ANTONIA TIMES".
Walter
Los Angeles Area voters: Democrats, Republican, Independants, Decline to States, and others can still send a wake up call to City Hall and Sacramento by voting out Senator Cedillo in 4 weeks. If voters blindly vote party lines they will allow Cedillo four more years of opportunities to advance entitlements and "rights" to illegal immigrants. Many have called Los Angeles "Ground Zero" in this national debate. So the direction of our country falls on the shoulders of voters in Los Angeles, Or more directly the voters of Senate District 22.
Center for Immigration Studies should never be used as a resource for an argument:
Early funding for CIS was channeled through U.S. Inc, a nonprofit established and still directed by John Tanton, who was one of the cofounders of the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR). (3) Among the right-wing foundations that fund CIS are Sarah Scaife Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, Jaqueline Hume Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Scaife Family Foundation. (2)
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I gather that's an attempt at an argumentum ad hominem.
Any specific challenges to their methodology? Plus, remember that the person citing the source was an L.A. Times distorter, not yours truly.
Those figures sound low to me, based on the research I did back at the time of the election...
The guy who wrote this article, David Streiter, was the one who also did the "Americans won't do landscaping even for $34/hr" article in the LAT in May.
The CIS is a respected research organization frequently quoted in the MSM, even though you may disagree with what they advocate. Read their reports and look at their source information and quality of research rather than lazily rattling off a list of funders. All groups have their funders and this doesn't necessarily negate their research.
You guys can grandstand all you want, but what if the Times reporter is actually correct in what he found and reported? What if this is not about evil conspiracies and reconquista pipedreams, but just the way the world works? What did Jack Nicholson say in that movie? "You can't handle the truth!"
You did good this time, Walter!
You know how many of those illegals could soon be hanging around in the shade of the trees on our residential streets surrounding the potential Home Depot in Sunland-Tujunga?
Important facts: Arnold didn't sign the bill again for illegal driver's licenses and he voted against giving financial aide to illegals going to college. Now if only the rest of the politicans do the same and protest all the tax payer money going to FREE services for the illegals. The illegals are going to protest again Oct. 5th. They are asking all to walk out of school and jobs. Don't they realize that their Grand March 25th protest backfired?
The Times (as usual) grossly underexaggerated the costs of illegals!
We can and will get rid of Cedillo in Nov. and we can and we will vote down every single bond issue. And don't forget Madame Chu...we can vote her out in Nov.
All I can say is one by one, we can get rid of all the Mechistas, including the evil twins, Taco Bell and Fabian the Chihwauwa.(sp)
The Senate bill will NEVER pass and soon the 7M illegals in LA will be thrown out on their collective asses.
We 'racist' Americans are sick of this shit! Period!
The LA Times continues to reinforce the reasons why I dropped my daily subscription service. I doubt if a change of ownership at the paper would improve the paper. I doubt that any subsequent owner wouldn't have the balls to dump the staffing in favor of a less extreme and more centrist reporting pool.
Can you be racist if your Latino? Its interesting that none of the newspapers ever report on what the colleged educated Latinos in LA think about the illegal problem. The LA Slimes don't want the people to read the fact that many of them are against these illegals because of how they have deteriorated this city. Go in the areas where they live and there's nothing but trash everywhere. Why doesn't Antonio have his depts. clean it up? He sure cleans the area before he attends for his photo ops.
For every "trashy" neighborhood you can point to where "illegals" live, I'll show you 15 dominated by poor and sometimes not so poor, undereducated "legals" of any race.
What's your point?
All these weeks I've been reading the same rant by Capt. Jack about how Cedillo and his friends Romero, Nunez, Padilla and DeLeon need to go. Now I get it. Both Walter and the Captain are right.
They ALL need to go, but not just for this issue or that issue. They ALL need to go because there are just too many things that they have their hands in and too many special interests who have their hands in them.
Walk the plank, clean house, throw the bums out, whatever. But those that are in need to go and those that want in need to be shut out.
I think his point is that neighborhoods with lots of illegal aliens living in them are generally trashy.
2:13 Do ya think he/she has been to Barstow?
Trashy and less than 1% illegals
No one said illegal aliens are necessary for trashiness. Anyone can be trashy.
The idea was that the presence of illegal aliens in a neighborhood is a good indicator that the neighborhood is trashy.
How would the LA Times be delivered without illegal alien labor?
There's a story for you.
9:51,
Barstow is the hometown of two of our favorite ethnopoliticians: Gloria Romero and Gil Cedillo. Joe Baca also spent 10-15 years of his childhood in Barstow.
These three are not illegals, but perhaps it's because of people like them that Barstow might be considered trashy.
Mayor Sam censoring our posts. There's a story...
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