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20 de Enero, 2008
VOTE for Pedro from Pluto!
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios | Tags: ALIENZ, hype, Immigration, Ronald Reagan
KEEP MOVING, NOTHING TO SEE HERE. Just another article pretending to tell NEWS while sticking in little anti-Latino or anti-migrant jabs. This is part of what made me laugh just a tiny bit to myself during all the AP lecture/training in nyc recently. We were hearing of all the importance of being unbiased...as if news is unbiased! That's not been the world I've seen and absorbed in my life. NEWS IS ALWAYS BIASED. It's just a matter of how artfully polished it is, or how educated the reader is or how close the reader is living to the writer, how much a piece appears biased. As my first film production teacher taught me at NYU, even where to place the camera is an editing decision, when you want to get down to it.
We can even begin with the title to this next piece: New U.S. citizens could sway vote; Advocates fear delays in approval process. What are we supposed to think when we read this? Each line by itself is one thing. But put them together and we have "OH NO! All the ALIENZ will vote for a saucer-shaped White House! AND LOOK! The ALIEN Advocates FEAR DELAYS! WELL, shoot! They really MUST want to affect the election!!!!!!1!"
By SUSAN FERRISS MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Applications for U.S. citizenship have almost doubled in one year, fueled by aggressive organizing by Latino activists and a political year marked by tough talk about immigration.Political strategists are gauging how an increase in new citizens might affect the November presidential election, especially in swing states such as Nevada and Arizona, where a relative few votes cast by new citizens could make a difference.
—New U.S. citizens could sway vote; Advocates fear delays in approval process
FIrstly, always watch for insinuations that Latinos are "aggressive" or (as the entire graf and piece imply) out to steal or grab or acquire land or resources. It's a theme that runs through media. How do I know? Because I pay attention. (Why is it placed upon us? Call it "projection" if you want a name. Or "guilty conscience." If swallowing half of México's land tasted goldrush-yummy, then this ugly image of Mexican(an in turn any Latino)-as-invader is the indigestion that America suffers to this day.)
And I always have to ask...if your second graf tells me that "Political strategists are gauging how an increase in new citizens might affect the November presidential election" why are you not, in that same graf, or at least in graf 3, interviewing a Political Strategist? Prove it! Who is this Poltical Straw-tegist?
Yeah, thought so.
At last count, between October 2006 and October 2007, more than 1.4 million applications rolled into U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the division of Homeland Security that screens and tests applicants. Citizenship Services predicts that immigrants who have filed applications since June 2007 will have to wait 16 to 18 months for approval. The average wait time had been seven months.
The surge, records show, is one of the largest annual increases in applications during the last 100 years.
"Surge"...."surge".....surge. Now where have I heard that term used before?
Laura Lopez, 40, applied for citizenship one year ago and is still waiting to be called to her exam. The Sacramento woman has been a legal resident since 1987, after receiving amnesty as a young farmworker during President Ronald Reagan's administration.She feels confident enough about her English and civics knowledge to pass the test. She wants to vote, she said, in part because she's smarting over accusations she's heard directed at illegal immigrants and immigrants.
AHA! Another Latin@ Revenge Voter! Just backs up the hypothesis of the article. Here I must ask...why not focus (instead of "Damn Ronnie let one through and now they vote with the AngryAlien faction") on the fact that this person is STILL a productive member of society, and so Ronnie (in this case) may have had good judgment in granting said Amnesty?
Dharsy Gaitan, 23, who works in the medical records section of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, came from Nicaragua as a child. She filed for citizenship in June, breezed through her test in December and was sworn in. She hasn't registered to vote yet, she said, but she will.She has sensed so much resentment toward immigrants in general, she said, that she has begun to fear the government might decide "legal immigrants can't be here anymore, either."
Lopez said she constantly reminds family and friends who can vote to do so.
"I have my preferences as far as candidates go," she said. But she doesn't want to reveal them yet. "First," she said, "I must become a citizen."
—New U.S. citizens could sway vote; Advocates fear delays in approval process
MWAJAJAJAJA! That's right. Give away no secrets when surging! But soon the choice will be revealed, and the SneakAvote will commence! Watch out! ALIENZ, ALIEN-advocates and Aggressively-Organizing Latinos will vote for antennae! And we'll make you wear a set!
Ho hum. Just another piece that, despite what it is talking about, is making sure to instill fear of ALIENZ and of Latinos into the American population.
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Comentarios (2)
yave begnet dijo:
This reporter probably feels she is presenting an objective view of the issue--perhaps she even harbors sympathy for the people applying for citizenship, sympathy she carefully tempers in her piece, not realizing her quixotic attempt at objectivity falls so sadly short.
A fair piece would have presented a key piece of the puzzle that is missing here. That piece is the fee increase mentioned but not explained in the article. USCIS pushed through administrative fee increases last year over the objections of community-based organizations and others. The increases were sold with the promise that they would allow USCIS to hire more personnel and modernize the system to bring processing times down to reasonable levels. The pitch was made more credible by the historically low processing times for naturalization (4-5 months) and immediate relative green card adjustment of status cases (3-4 months) USCIS had worked to achieve in the first half of 2007. But as we now know, whatever the money was meant for, it wasn't to bring down processing times, which have now ballooned far beyond what they were a year ago.
What happened was that, knowing that the natz application fees were going up by 70%, long-time permanent residents applied in droves in advance of the fee increase at the end of July. Some applicants hadn't before felt confident they could pass the English and civics exams, or they had applied before and been denied, or they had put it off for financial reasons, or they realized how tenuous the position of a permanent resident actually is in the U.S. these days. An extra $275 may not seem like much to middle class Americans, but it is a lot of money to many immigrants, so it was the deciding factor pushing a lot of people to apply who otherwise wouldn't have. USCIS was woefully unprepared for this rush of applications, which they should have anticipated. Now people who filed their papers in the summer of 2007 are wondering whether they'll become citizens in time to vote in November 2008. And they're understandably upset. But not a trace of the government's role in these unreasonable delays can be found in this article.
More on this at Greg Siskind's blog. Damn, Nez, I don't know why my comments are always so long on your blog. I'm gonna strive for brevity, but I know I'll fail.
Palabras por yave begnet spat forth on el 20 de Enero, 2008 at 06:12 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
you are right...i know the writer imagines they are being straight. but i gotta shake it all up!
dont strive for brevity, bro. your comments are just right. thanks for the info and time. and link!
and exactly. to some, $275 is a phat check. and not easy to just whip up.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 20 de Enero, 2008 at 06:18 PM