The Shadows Are Everywhere!

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Mega-Media Trends

From last night's coverage on the nightly newscasts of the immigration protests:

ABC: "What do they want? They want to come out of the shadows, they say."

CBS: "He entered the US illegally 28 years ago. He's marching today because he says he's tired of living in the shadows."

NBC: "From border states like here in Arizona to unlikely places like South Bend, Indiana, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, illegal immigrants alongside their supporters stepped from the shadows."

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by peterbaldwin-2009 April 12, 2006 1:57 AM EDT: All those illegal ******** in one spot?Let's call Hillary Clnton to round em up, corral em, brand em, and ship them off to Wal-Mart University.; Reply to this comment


by alphaa10-2009 April 11, 2006 11:08 PM EDT: That 19th century Emma Lazarus aesthetic about open borders, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" anticipated nothing about 12 million people running, walking, sneaking, flying, swimming and driving across our border to what they suppose is their Land of Plenty. Such illegals do not merely ask to be free, they demand to be granted US citizenship by the illogic of defying the laws of the very country whose protection they seek. A post-911 United States cannot have open borders of any kind. With al Qaeda terror cells circulating, illegal entry cannot be distinguished from any other threat to national security. Our borders must be secured, even if Bush seems strangely asleep on the subject of borders, airport and port security (Bush, your "Katrina President at work!" has industrial friends feeding like hogs on immigant labor.) Pop Quiz-- 1. Does Mexico or any other country represented among the illegals have an open borders policy? 2. Do you know the official language of Mexico? The Mexican government requires all its citizens know and use Spanish as their primary language. 3. Does Mexico allow/promote the use of English in its activities? Immigration is a privilege, extended by the host country. There is an immigration process and almost every country in the world has such a policy and attempts to enforce it. Bush has incompetently handled the issue and opened a Pandora's Box of minority and ethnic special interest politics.; Reply to this comment