OPINION:
Our mainstream media bears much of the responsibility for allowing Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama to avoid discussing the immigration issue in earnest during their campaigns (“Illegals - the elephant in the room,” Editorial, Wednesday).
Rather than press the presidential candidates on the most worrisome public-policy issue of our times, the media is content instead to almost daily shower its audiences with tear-soaked stories about illegal aliens who are “forced to live in the shadows” each day “in a climate of fear” and who must watch helplessly while their families are “torn apart” by federal agents charged with enforcing “broken” immigration laws.
Why should we wonder, then, why many of our politicians - whom the media has failed to hold accountable for their role in creating the immigration catastrophe - are far more willing to listen to the voices of left-wing organizations like the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Council of La Raza?
Executive director
Midwest Coalition to
Reduce Immigration
LaValle, Wis.
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