8/14/2017 - Arthur Schaper Townhall.com
When I was training to
be a teacher, my mentors taught me to be tough at the outset. I learned that to
be lenient, to go by compassion rather than consistency, hurts everyone. No one
learns anything. The rule of law makes learning, producing, and succeeding
possible.
This lesson on learning
and discipline illustrates the fundamental good that follows from our President
enforcing our nation’s immigration laws. It is not compassionate to Americans
or immigrants to allow illegal aliens to ignore our laws. The corruption
rampant in Los Angeles County and throughout other major urban areas follows
from the arbitrary disregard for our nation’s legal sovereignty and cultural
integrity.
The liberal,
marginalized national media still wants to push an illegal alien sob story
narrative at all costs. Look over the list below of the latest sob stories the
national readership endured over the past week (and month):
Not one of these
headlines admit that those “immigrants” are actually illegal aliens. Like their
rabid anti-Trump hatred, the liberal media is obsessively pushing a rigorous
pro-amnesty narrative. They want everyone to believe: “Oh, the poor illegals!
They haven’t done anything wrong! They’re just humble people doing their best.”
Of course, the article about the California pastor did mention that he used
multiple false identities to avoid capture and deportation.
Why is the media driven
to bully Americans with this “illegal alien good; immigration enforcement bad”
narrative? I get to read one sob story after another about immigrants who face
deportation and have to struggle with difficult choices. One would think that
American newspapers would talk about Americans and the issues affecting them, right?
It’s crystal clear that the media wants to depict lawbreakers as tragic
victims, even though these illegals have themselves to blame. Yes, we are
supposed to condemn the Trump Administration as hard, uncompromising, and
unkind executive overreach.
But it’s not
working. Last
week Ann Coulter wrote an excellent article about Donald Trump's
immigration reform proposal--The RAISE Act: enact a point system, lower legal
immigration, and put American workers first. Coulter pointed out that the media
doesn't want to talk about the RAISE Act because they would have to connect why
so many societal ills have exploded in this country: the rising suicide rate
among working-class Americans, the raging opioid crisis throughout the country,
as well as rising crime rates.
And yet I feel that Ann
Coulter still didn't get to the real reasons why. Why is it that The
Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and other
major or what used to be major media outlets are so obsessed with promoting the
sob stories of illegal aliens who now realize that they can no longer live in
the United States without authorization? Why are we reading these stories?
I submit that the
Trump-phobic, amnesty-pandering media publish these stories for the following
reasons.
1. The Masters of the
Universe running the media are attached to a left-wing, globalist worldview. As
large corporate interests, they depend on a larger state and a larger
government, which explains their essential hostility to the Trump
Administration. Let's not forget that Mexican billionaire Hugo Slim has a major
stake in The New York Times.
2. The new generation
of journalists have been taught to be propagandists for left-wing causes. They
have no profound historical perspective nor knowledge base. They are not
objective reporters of fact but subjective propagandists—and they have been
applauded for doing so.
3. Corporate interests
want cheap labor. Therefore they want amnesty, they fight for open borders, and
they want a flooded labor market to drive down labor costs. And guess what?
They are the major ad purchasers for liberal media outlets. If these news
organs want to print, they need ad revenue, which means any story showing
illegal immigration in its proper, negative light gets killed.
4. But what about the
conservative media elites who fret over the plight of illegal aliens but ignore
the crises of working Americans? The Boston Globe columnist
Jeff Jacoby wrote the fifth article listed above. His argument rests on a
premise comparing illegal aliens to red-heads. Having red hair is not a crime.
Entering the United States illegally is a crime. Jacoby’s argument is one of
the most specious illogical and offensive I have read—and from a conservative! Charles Krauthammer has also
caved, advocating
for legal status for illegal aliens in the US, but not citizenship.
I have to surmise two
reasons: they accept the white guilt narrative that America owes The Third
World something. Perhaps the same media corporate donors are pressuring these
“conservative” columnists. Perhaps they believe that a hard stance on
immigration will cause conservatism to wane and lose future elections. Yet
Donald Trump ran against that RNC Autopsy report in 2016 and won handily. Also,
these columnists are white collar intelligentsia, and they do not experience
the consequences of illegal immigration as the rest of us do.
Despite their best
sob-story efforts, the liberal media cannot brainwash the nation on illegal
immigration. President Trump’s proposed RAISE Act immigration policy secures
our borders, ensures a pro-America labor market, and protects American values.
Once again, Trump has trumped the progressive left’s media agenda.
Enough with the sob
stories. If you break our laws, you pay the price. We have one rule of law,
which must stand firm in the United States--and is the reason why so many seek
our shores. We are a wonderful country where life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness are ample and available. Why? Because we are a nation of laws.
President Trump's immigration policy is tough but fair; consistent and yet
truly compassionate. Americans have a right to discourage any immigration
policy which is partial, arbitrary, based on misplaced, fraudulent compassion.
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