The people who own CNN keep Dobbs and his lies on the air to scapegoat Mexicans for the economic crisis that was caused by Wall St. crooks.

Ted Turner has said that if he still owned CNN he would fire Dobbs. I wish he did still own CNN. It was reputable back then. Now it is trash like the rest of the media. The only decent news station left is BBC America.

People need to stop whining and either cancel their cable, or boycott CNNs advertisers. They’ll only respond if they think they might lose money.

Whatever the real % is, 6, 20, is too much for us to deal with as far as prison space is concerned. To rationalize 6% as miniscual when the point us, illegals do pose a crime problem; a problem we could easily avoid if we sealed/protected our borders better.

As for the CNN docudrama, it was a joke! Goes to show we have no single concentrated voice leading a cause like say the NAACP(although I think their idiots too).

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4359/an_inconvenient_woman/

An Inconvenient Woman
Arizona public defender Isabel Garcia speaks out against U.S.-Mexico border policy.
By Rose Arrieta

You could call Isabel Garcia an inconvenient woman. Inconvenient because she speaks her mind—like it or not. She has raised the ire of anti-immigrant groups and the Mexican government alike…

I’m glad she covered what happened to Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah. That story needed to be told. I thought she marred it, though, by showing that Puerto Rican guy with the big ears who was complaining about being called Mexican, as if mistaken identity, and not his race, is the reason he’s not accepted. Puerto Ricans have a long history of being targeted and discriminated against and it has nothing to do with Mexicans.

The Pico Rivera story–It was OK. She spent too much time on that girl who dropped out of school. What about all the kids who graduate and go to college? Those kids will never see the light of day on CNN. When she called that city a Latino Mayberry, I thought it was ridiculous, even mean, until I saw Shenendoah, PA. That place looked so depressed and run down, with houses going for ten thousand a year. At least in Pico Rivera, your home is worth something, even in this economy.

Orlando, FLA–She spent little time on the engineer and most of the time on the Puerto Rican guy who flunked his police officer exam. Why spend all that TV time just to show him fail? Furthermore, the series ended on that note.

I don’t know if this is Soledad O’Brien’s view of the world, or CNN’s, but she wasn’t the best person to do this series. Her view of the world is skewed. They should have had a team of reporters covering this.

I would have liked to see some successful people. O’Brien seems to think that the most successful Mexican-Americans are in Hollywood. Please. I want to see astronaut Jose Hernandez, brain surgeon Dr. Q, and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Mario Molina.

Did any Mexican/Chicano reporters work on this? Probably not. CNN doesn’t hire any reporters of Mexican descent.

For instance the nightly “opinion-punditry-circuit” is pretty much made up of a bunch of old-white dudes, mainly Beck, Hannity & Lou Dobbs who have found ranting about undocumented immigrants and illegal immigration their formula for boosting their ratings.

As for Lou Dobbs citing information that is factually incorrect, you need just look at two claims he has made that have been widely discredited. The first is his claim that an increase in leprosy cases was attributed to Mexican immigrants, the second that 1/3 of the prison inmates in this country are illegal immigrants which number is closer to 6%.

This is a fact. Lou Dobbs is loose with his facts and has used illegal immigration to rescue a sagging journalist career. Another fact, is that he’s a dinosaur, a relic of the old-tv-media-machine that is no longer relevant in the internet era of today.

BTW, NCLR is a Latino Advocacy group and MALDEF is a legal defense fund. So, that being said what exactly is an “illegal immigrant” advocate group? I’ve never heard of one and surely none exist, except maybe in your mind, so can you name one?