Biased Reporting
Hispanics Who Reject the Protestors
By Daniel Muniz

Although I am rarely surprised by the media’s shenanigans when it comes to sensationalized reporting, I have to admit that I was truly appalled at the biased coverage of Hispanic protestors who demonstrated against illegal immigration reform. As a Hispanic myself, I found it quite disturbing of how slanted and one-sided the reporting was.

The bottom line is that the whole issue is about people breaking the law. It is not about anything else other than that regardless of how it is portrayed.

The press sympathetically painted the protestors as victims and oftentimes referring to them merely as immigrants. In reality, these illegal aliens are abusing our system and many of them are willing participants of the people (Big Business Republicans and Liberal Democrats) who are exploiting them. And worse yet, some of the illegal aliens even copped an “entitlement” attitude by asserting that it is their right to break the law by unlawfully entering and staying in this country. They assert that they are also entitled to all the services that our citizens enjoy without any of the responsibilities that go along with them.

However, instead of reporting the news, the media is simply telling us what we are supposed to think.

But here is what I find to be despicable. The press is attempting to create an illusion that most, if not nearly all Hispanics, agree with allowing illegal aliens to break the law in order to remain in this country.

In reality, there are quite a few Hispanics of Mexican descent, like myself, who do not in any way, shape, or form, approve of how illegal aliens are blatantly flouting the rule of law. And I resent the implication by the media that all Hispanics support, not only illegal immigration, but the raucous behavior of the protestors such as them denouncing America and what it stands for.

Not that I oppose immigration; in fact, I am all for it.

However, laws are in place that we have to follow including the ones that we disagree with. There are plenty of laws that I personally dislike, such as paying taxes, but I go ahead and obey them anyways because it is my obligation as a lawful citizen. And whenever I do break the law, like when I get a speeding ticket, I pay the consequences.
 

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In addition, I have personally known quite a few “legal” aliens who have gone through the entire immigration process. In fact, I saw firsthand, with a co-worker of mine, the painful procedure that “legal” immigrants must go through in order to gain the lawful right to work and stay in this country. Yet, my co-worker like so many others, endured, paid the necessary fees, and filled out the paperwork to legitimately stay in the United States. In other words, they played by the rules.

But illegal aliens, along with their white supporters, simply feel that they do not have to obey the law that everyone else has to follow.

However, what infuriates me the most is how the protestors are trashing the very place that they want to stay in. If you despise this country so much, then why do you want to take our money and stay here?

The city of San Antonio Texas, which is predominately Hispanic, actually ignored the issue until the local newspaper prodded high school students to walk out of class in order to create a story to report.

But for the most part, this city is a lot different than the cities in California and New York.

For instance, Kelly AFB, when it was open, almost single-handedly created a Hispanic middle class.

The small Catholic college I graduated from happens to produce one of the largest numbers of commissioned Hispanic officers for the army. In addition, San Antonio also has one of the highest enlistments into the armed forces. The city is practically a gold mine for military recruiters because they are able to find so many potential recruits who are actually serious in serving their country. And quite a few of them happen to be Hispanic.

My father as well as a number of my uncles and cousins has served in the military and many fought in foreign wars long ago such as WWII and Korea. My father was in Korea. Even to this day, I still have cousins involved with the military.

Although there are plenty of things that my relatives can rattle off about what they dislike about politics and government especially when the older ones lived through the bigotry and prejudice of the past but their perspective of America is so much more different than the illegal aliens who are copping an attitude.

As a result, there is a lot of patriotism from Hispanics in San Antonio and from this part of Texas. Many of them are very pro-military.

In addition, the city is also fairly well integrated in that there are quite a significant number of Hispanic-white intermarriages such as myself.

Yet the press is not going to highlight the differences. In fact, the differences should have been front page news across the country in that San Antonio with its huge Hispanic population rejected the call to protest. But the facts rarely make news. Sensationalism does.

There are plenty of Hispanics like myself who reject this naked political opportunism. If the media were to ever do its just job, it would quickly discover that there are plenty of people in this country of Mexican descent who oppose the illegal aliens who refuse to play by the rules.

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COMMENTS FROM READERS

Thanks so much for encouraging your fellow citizens of all races that many, many Americans of Hispanic background do not oppose genuine border security!!! -Paul Richard