Father’s Day Special: NYT Reminds Americans that Illegals Are Fathers Too

Posted on June 19, 2006

The illegal immigration issue threatens to hurt Democrats in the fall 2006 elections, so The New York Times has delivered a very special — front page, above the fold — Father’s Day article that will no doubt serve as talking points for many left-leaning “civil rights” groups, such as the ACLU.

In “Here Illegally, Working Hard and Paying Taxes”, NYT writer Eduardo Porter presents a human interest style puff piece about four hard-working, tax-paying, family-loving ~~immigrants~~ illegal immigrants.

In addition to authoring DNC talking points, Porter plays pure politics and frames this illegal immigration issue to serve three purposes: 1) To recast the players in the “American Dream” drama as illegals, 2) to turn illegal immigrants into sympathetic characters by paralleling their struggle with that of many of our own families’, and 3) to make the opposition — evil Conservatives — seem less thoughtful, sensitive and nuanced in their own arguments to the contrary.

“Adriana, 27; Ana, 27; Emilio, 48; and Polo, 52, are all illegal immigrants.” Illegal. Not legal. As such, they should be treated — not as some privileged group — but as any law breakers would. Immigration laws do not exist because Americans enjoy punishing foreigners. Our laws exist to preserve the very way of life that we — including illegals — value. Americans understand and encourage the role that legal immigrats plays in the American Dream and consider it a source of great pride that so many risk everything to arrive on our Sacred Shores:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

But, just not all at once. That’s all we’re saying.

» DOWNLOAD: Today’s New York Times Front Page [1.3MB PDF]
» Eduardo Porter’s NYT archive

» Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security

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2 Responses to “Father’s Day Special: NYT Reminds Americans that Illegals Are Fathers Too”

gfactor on June 19th, 2006 3:26 pm

“But, just not all at once. That’s all we’re saying.”

Who says they’re coming all at once?
kerwin_brown on June 20th, 2006 10:49 am

Who misses the key words “yearning to breathe free?”

I do not see people waving a Mexican flag, speaking Spanish, being taught in Mexican schools located in the United States, and desiring to retake the United States for Mexico as yearning to be free.