More Evidence of the Restrictionist Bent of the Center for Immigration Studies

The Center for Immigration Studies is a well-funded organization that, behind a veneer of impartiality, consistently advocates restrictionist positions.  In a year in which the immigration news coverage has been amazingly insightful and gripping, look at who the CIS gave its annual journalism award to.  Here’s an excerpt from the CIS press release:

Californian Wins Immigration Journalism Award Coverage of Southern Border Highlights Serious Problems

Sara Carter of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario, Calif., has been named the recipient of the 2006 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration. This award, presented since 1997 by the Center for Immigration Studies, is intended to promote informed and fair reporting on this most contentious and complicated issue. Traveling frequently from California to Arizona and Texas and Mexico, Ms. Carter broke story after story related to the dangerous conditions all along America’s southern border. Rare has been the week in the past six months that Ms. Carter hasn’t appeared on a cable news program discussing her latest scoop. It was Ms. Carter who broke the story that our government was alerting Mexico City to the locations and membership and other details of the Minuteman Project civilian border-watch group. She also first brought word of bounties being placed on the heads of sheriffs’ deputies along the Texas border by Mexican cartels. The body of her reporting over the past year is an important example of how the public interest can be served when even a relatively small media outlet devotes appropriate resources to coverage of our nation’s immigration crisis. More information on the Katz Award, including i

Information on the previous years’ winners, which include CNN’s Lou Dobbs, can be seen by clicking here.

KJ