Posted on 05/27/2008 6:38:59 AM PDT by bs9021
Journalist Sympathizes With Illegal Immigrants
by: Bethany Stotts, May 27, 2008
Social justice took on a whole new meaning at Messiah College’s 2008 Commencement when award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario explained the factors motivating her human-interest coverage of illegal immigration and hunger in California schools.
A reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Nazario started her career at the Wall Street Journal two decades ago. Her book, Enrique’s Journey, recounts the perils faced by a young Honduran boy traveling north on the “train of death” to reunite with his illegal immigrant mother in the United States.
She told Publisher’s Weekly that she was inspired to tell Enrique’s story when she found that her part-time housekeeper had four children whom she had not seen for years after she illegally entered the United States.
During her Commencement speech at Messiah College, Nazario carefully omitted any mention of these persons’ legal status, referring to them instead “immigrants,” “migrants,” or, simply, women and children seeking a better life in the United States.
She labeled Latin American police as corrupt not for taking bribes, but because they deport illegal immigrants back to their home countries. “All along the way, [these children] are hunted down like animals....They must elude bandits who rob and kill migrants along the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the way are out to deport them,” she said.
Despite this, Nazario admits that writing the book changed her view on illegal immigration. She told Publisher’s Weekly that “The main change for me has been to recognize that such a powerful stream will only change if it is addressed at its source, if the economies of these countries that are sending large numbers of people to the United States improves [sic].”
She added,...
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...so this illegal b*tch abdandons her children an flees to the USA. That's the sad part of this journalistic piece of crap.
Sonia is sitting on a gold mine of McCain coffee mugs and t-shirts. All she has to do is blog it and cash in.
Well, that is the most likely source for those particular products... ;)
Man, I am so sick of the way we romanticize illegal immigrants and the poor. We show these tear-jerking pictures of some child behind a chain link fence touching the finger of a lady we're supposed to assume is her mother. We're shown pictures of emaciate children and we're supposed to feel guilty because it's our fault they're so thin.
Sorry...I don't buy into this self-guilt. Illegal immigrants have problems because they broke the law. If the little child wants to be with her mom, then one of them needs to go to the other side of the fence where they are "legal" residents. If your children are hungry, what are YOU doing about it? Why is it my problem that you chose to bring another mouth into the world with no plan on how YOU would feed YOUR children. The War on Poverty has done absolutely nothing to solve poverty. Indeed, it perpetuates it by providing handouts to people who are on their fifth generation of public handouts.
I believe in legal immigration but have no sympathy for illegal immigrants. I also believe in a handup, but am done supporting a handout. These people not only don't try to improve their lot, they're ungrateful for the free ride they are getting. I'd replace welfare with workfare where any aid recipient would have to work 40 hours per week for their dole. After cleaning toilets each week, perhaps they'd learn they need to find a better job.
Of course, none of this will ever happen because Washington knows people still believe in a free lunch and politicians deliver it with my money. It's time to stop romanticizing these people.
I’m sure Ms. Nazario leaves her front door wide open with a sign, in English and Spanish, saying, “Welcome, undocumented immigrants! Come in and help yourselves!” I wonder how many she has taken in?
You mean immigrants, or readers...? ;)
Where's your sense of social justice, Sonia? You only give her part-time employment? You b*tch!
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Terrible? Sure it is, but I fed my children when they lived under my roof. Now they support themselves. I have paid thousands of dollars in taxes that went to feeding other people children too. No, I do not feel guilty that I didn't help this child.
Those of you who want to allow the uneducated illegal aliens to come into America are contributers to this type of problem. The low wage earner will never pay enough taxes to be an asset to their community. You will end up supporting them and their children whether you want to or not.
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