Cable news caricatures immigration issue: They Keep Coming!

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Remember Pete Wilson’s television advertisements in support of Proposition 187 in 1994, which showed shadowy images of people along the U.S./Mexico border, with the narrator’s ominous words, “They Keep Coming.”  (BTW, we all know who the “they” are.).  If you do, and watch just a bit of television, it is not really that suprising but a Media Matters “analysis found that reports about immigration policy on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News frequently feature footage of people apparently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The footage distorts the issue; it does not address in any meaningful way the reality of their lives or the nation’s challenges in dealing with the issue.”

KJ