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MoveOn.org video: Saying ‘illegal’ immigrants fits definition of a hate crime
Posted on April 28, 2012 by Conservative Byte

In yet another case of Orwellian political correctness run amok, a video posted at MoveOn.org says calling illegal immigrants “illegal” fits the definition of a hate crime and calls for the word to be banned when used in the context of immigration.

The headline at the MoveOn page screams “One word we hear too often on Fox News,” as if only Fox News calls illegal immigrants “illegal.”

A web page at Colorlines goes even further, giving words they say are more acceptable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebs6S...layer_embedded

if you have immigrated without following the law ... then you have immigrated illegally hence : illegal immigrants. My cat might have kittens in the oven .. but that doesn't make them biscuits no matter what you choose to call them.

Being in this country without proper papers = illegal
Using false Social Security numbers = crime
Working off the books/ getting paid under the table is tax evasion = criminal
Collecting social benefits without properly disclosing income = fraud
I'm trying to find a way that illegals are not criminals.


Without American taxpayers, the illegals have no hope.
They simply follow successful Americans wherever we are
After all, you won't see an illegal mow the yard of another illegal.

FYI...Illegals DO NOT work for cheap. When you factor in food stamps, free medical care, free education, subsidized rent and ultilities, court appointed defense lawyers, translators and incarcaration AND they don't pay auto OR health insurance premiums....but, we pick up the tab on that, along with everything else they avoid responsibility on. ILLEGALS ARE A VERY BAD DEAL FOR AMERICA.

Originally Posted by 3lilpigs

Then he'd have to do things legally. He'd actually have to pay taxes and such, and get off any kind of ''assistance'' he and his family are on.

Plus, this way, he gets free publicity.

Sympathy and a following......

It's trendy and beneficial to be illegal.

Time's Illegal Immigration Cover Story: 'We Are Americans - Just Not Legally'
By Noel Sheppard | June 14, 2012 | 11:38

Time magazine waded into the illegal immigration debate Thursday with a preview of next Monday's cover and featured article guaranteed to generate heated discussion on both sides of the aisle.

In front of a picture of unknown immigrants save the story's controversial author Jose Antonio Vargas was the bold headline "We Are Americans*"; somewhat below it read "*Just not legally."



The article began: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...html?pcd=pw-hp

'Why haven't you gotten deported?'

That's usually the first thing people ask me when they learn I'm an undocumented immigrant or, put more rudely, an "illegal." Some ask it with anger or frustration, others with genuine bafflement. At a restaurant in Birmingham, not far from the University of Alabama, an inebriated young white man challenged me: "You got your papers?" I told him I didn't. "Well, you should get your ass home, then." In California, a middle-aged white woman threw up her arms and wanted to know: "Why hasn't Obama dealt with you?" At least once a day, I get that...

The rest of the story is available only to Time subscribers, but a "Behind the Cover" piece shed some additonal light on its contents:

In Spring 2010, four undocumented students trekked 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington to press passage of the Dream Act, a bill that would offer a path to permanent residency for immigrants who came to the country as minors and achieved certain educational accomplishments. Moved by their courage, Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist who was part of the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize winning team for their coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, revealed that he, too, was an undocumented immigrant in an essay published by the New York Times Magazine last June.

A year later, Vargas finds that immigration in America has seen little progress, as he writes in this week’s TIME cover story.

As the Media Research Center's director of media analysis Tim Graham wrote at the time: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...ns-liberal-lob

Former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas has written a long piece for The New York Times Magazine declaring that he’s an illegal alien and that he’s created a new advocacy group called Define American (“a project of the Tides Center”) to push for the DREAM Act that would provide permanent residency to illegal aliens brought to America as children.

Vargas, 30, lied to a string of media outlets about his immigration status with a fake driver’s license from Oregon. He came over from the Philippines at age 12. (Vargas told the truth to Post editor Peter Perl, a mentor, but he wouldn’t comment now.) In the Post story on this by Paul Farhi, Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti offered a no-comment on Vargas’s employment at the paper: “We will not comment on individual personnel matters out of respect for the privacy of our employees.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...washingtonpost

What that no-comment seems to say: “We don’t want to condemn lying to us about your immigration status since we probably employ a pile of ‘undocumented’ people and are too liberal a media outlet to seem scandalized.”

It might also be suggested that Vargas was hired smack-dab out of college in 2004 in part because he was Filipino and gay – an affirmative action two-fer. The illegal status might have only added to the allure. In 2006, the Post egregiously celebrated large Washington rallies for amnesty for illegal aliens.

Graham noted the following day that Vargas had immediately become "the Left's illegal-alien hero." http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...gal-alien-hero

The New York Times Magazine's editor came out a few days later covering for Vargas by saying that lying in journalism is nothing new. As Graham wrote: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...precedented-jo

Over the weekend, NPR’s On The Media found that the New York Times was so fascinated by self-proclaimed illegal alien activist Jose Antonio Vargas and found his story so compelling, the credibility of the author was not an issue. New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Hugo Lindgren (that "great magazine head") said all the lying about his citizenship is not an issue for journalists:

That's something that's come up today. You know, people say, you know, you lie about one thing and people can't stop lying if they do that. And I think some of that misses the point. This is not unprecedented in journalism. This is not the first person who's ever told a lie who then goes on to write about it.

"The point" not to be missed is political: the injustice isn't the lying, Lindgren is saying, it's the system that "forces" illegals to lie.

So a year later - and just five months before a pivotal presidential election! - Vargas gets a Time magazine cover story to further his illegal immigration agenda whilst most assuredly politicizing this matter in a fashion that helps the current White House resident.

I'm surprised the cover didn't feature a picture of President Obama made to look Hispanic with the headline "The First Latino President."


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sh...#ixzz1xnceGrZc

comments

What country in the world would bestow its citizenship on an individual who (a) entered the country illegally, and (b) has not attempted to apply for citizenship via legal channels?

The very idea that someone who broke our laws when they entered our country and is now demanding "rights" like a citizen would be ridiculed everywhere else in the world. But in the US, the Left tries to place some guilt trip on the actual citizens and legal alien residents who play be the rules.

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That is the ultimate question that no liberal could ever answer. The best they'd be able to come up with would be something along the lines of, "Well, we're not those other countries". Unfortunately for them, for ANY issue that they endorse, comparison between the US and other countries is usually the FIRST argument they use, i.e. gun control, capital punishment, abortion, health-care, education, etc.

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I'm Judge, jury and executioner.
Just not legally.
'Bang!'

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And if you find it offensive to be called an illegal alien, then go back to where you came from. America has always welcomed LEGAL immigrants.

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Every sovereign nation on the planet has rules and regulations regarding immigration. Many of these countries are severe in their treatment of persons entering their country illegally. Because the United States is known as the "beacon of freedom" around the world, the idea that Mr. Vargas can openly and freely pen an article about his situation and that of other illegals, is perfectly alright to many Liberals. They say they support illegals as a humanitarian question, but we know it is really about another possible voting block that can help the Libs stay in power. Once again the "Progressives" use people for their own selfish goals. The law is the law! Until that changes Mr. Vargas and his fellow illegal aliens should be brought to justice for making a folly of the sovereignty of the United States of America