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I suspect the heart of the Minuteman founder I interviewed the other day dropped like a rock this morning when he checked the Los Angeles Times.
Reporter Anna Gorman, a smart girl who knows better, wrote a gushingly weepy story about a 10-year-old kid, the son of divorced parents, who is about to lose Daddy Time because his illegal immigrant father is on the ledge of being deported.
All right, Murgatroyd, you give us the cue when to start tearing up.
Tomorrow, I suppose, Ms. Gorman shall tell us of the son of a mass murderer. The kid is likely to be deprived of Daddy Time because those bad people in police uniforms are going to take his father off to prison for several lifetimes.
If the Minuteman founder thought he was winning America’s hearts as a latter-day Paul Revere, the Times’ story should have corrected that misimpression.
Illegal immigration, in the view of the Times, is no more of a problem than ants at a Sunday School picnic.
They Found Carlos Alvarado
Carlos Alvarado —one of at least 14,000 Carlos Alvarados going to sleep in Los Angeles this evening — is presently involved in a deportation matter.
The Times, sinking fiscally faster than the Titanic, doesn’t even bother striving for a objective cover in news stories these days. The boys running the newspaper stamp their ideology on almost every page instead of at least trying to confine opinions to the op-ed section.
I found two passages extraordinary:
“Alvarado’s case raises complex questions that will increasingly face both state and federal judges: What happens when immigration law and family law conflict? When a parent is here illegally, does a federal deportation order automatically trump a state custody order? Should child custody issues be considered in immigration cases.”
That the unfortunate Ms. Gorman could knit together such bizarre thoughts is disappointing, just not surprising. In perhaps the most illegal alien-wracked community in the country, the single daily newspaper sides with illegals?
And then there were these two sentences:
“Alvarado’s attorney, Alan Diamante, said there are no published court decisions for immigration judges to follow when immigration and family law intersect.
“’They definitely need to give guidance on these cases,’ he said.”
The thrust of the story lies in these two out-takes.
Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Propagandizing
Ms. Gorman entered the story with an unmistakable agenda to deliver to her readers, that illegal immigration is an exaggeration promoted by extremists. And darn, she just could not find a substantive voice anywhere in Los Angeles who disagreed with her manipulated point.
The story is a legitimate scenario to present. But, as the Times does daily with liberals and conservatives, all of the correctness was loaded to one side, A shame, because the Times could be a serious force for good.
I know the first judge Ms. Gorman quoted, the retired Bruce Einhorn. He is a well-known liberal who specialized in immigration cases. Was Ms. Gorman quoting him selectively when she cast Mr. Einhorn as emptily shrugging his shoulders, effectively muttering, “I dunno” to the question of what exit route he would take? That would be my guess — whatever it takes to jelly-up her main thrust, that illegals are victims of those mean, ol’ Amurr-i-cuns.
