Tuesday, May 27, 2008

FYI: Fear and Loathing in Prime Time

MediaMatters has a report up on media coverage of illegal immigration. It's good stuff, and most interesting because it deconstructs the more hysterical claims of television pundits--specifically,Dobbs, O'Reily, and Beck--regarding undocumented aliens. Among the issues discussed:

Does illegal immigration boost crime?

Do illegal immigrants suck up social services without paying taxes?

Is a NAFTA superhighway planned? North American Union?

And so on. There's also a PDF of the study for later perusing.

Edit: I should have done this earlier, but better late than never. Guess who believes in the NAFTA superhighway?

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