The Media And The Issue Of Illegal Immigration

Media has been playing a significant role in our daily lives by developing our personalities, enriching our knowledge and providing us with different sorts of information. It has a tremendous power in framing cultural guidelines and shaping political dissertation. If the information provided to the U.S. citizens is distorted, then they cannot make informed decisions on the matters of public policy. Thus, it becomes vital to the American democracy that the news media and its institutions remain unbiased, fair and accurate. Media bias happens when a media systematically and persistently emphasize one particular point of view that is usually below the standards of professional journalism. There can be various reasons for media bias, some of

In the passionate article “Immigrant Problem Is About Us, Not Them” Jo-Ann Pilardi argues that the media focuses on a single aspect of illegal immigration, as it relates to our economy, instead of drawing attention towards the real problem: big business.

The Latino and Hispanic population continues to increase at a lower rate every year in the U.S., they account for a large portion of the population. However, it hasn’t change the portrayal of Latinos in the media. Often, the Latino community is shown in a negative light that doesn’t represent the reality of this community. The main goal of this paper is to show and understand how the media portray Latinos and ways to solve the problem.

Chavez uses the “Latino Threat Narrative” to compare the Hispanics to the “German language threat, the Catholic threat, the Chinese and Japanese language threat, and the southern and eastern European threats.” He suggests that “each was pervasive and defined “truths” about the threat posed by immigrants that, in hindsight, were unjustified or never materialized in the long run of history.” Chavez was trying to explain that the Hispanic would pattern these other threats by upsetting the America people. He states that “… the Latino Threat Narrative is part of a grand tradition of alarmist discourse about immigrants and their perceived negative impacts on society.”

One doesn’t even need to understand Spanish and needs only to watch a few minutes of the network newscast Primer Impacto on Univision to see the hectic fear the Latino community in this country faces. The program offers numerous stories of Latinos fearing deportation, or unable to obtain new visas, or in fear of losing family, friends and jobs due to changes in enforcement and new legislation. Many are fleeing back to countries where drug cartels are literally at war with governments and where there is no opportunity for education or success. Some may argue that this is helpful to the nation’s immigration problems but if we continue watching the same newscast we see stories of drug trafficking, murders, and violence. It seems quite logical that those who flee are the shop owners, the laborers, and so many others who simply want the opportunity to earn an honest wage and improve their life while the cartels, gangs, and violence continues to spill over the borders. Unfortunately it is not the criminals who are being run out, it is the honest people who truly

The Arizona Republic article “Dying to Work” really sends the readers ideas into a mix of concepts that are trying to change their opinions to fit a certain idea. For example reading about all the people who die crossing the sonoran desert gives you a sense of sorrow for their lives. Then also reading about the one hundred and forty thousand foreign-born individuals that are in jail in the United States. This is when it becomes hard to say that they are dying to work, not just dying to get money. If you read through the articles that are talking about the Mexicans their is always a two sided argument. One for the poor immigrants who have nothing to eat, and one for the gang banging, drug pushing individuals. The sad thing is that the Mexicans are not the only ones doing this. So people can’t so easily call this an illegal immigrant problem. There are a lot of white American born people who are totting guns around and pushing drugs, but they aren’t doing it to feed their family, they are simply lazy. Not to say that all Mexicans are totting guns or are even trying to feed their family they are just trying to live.

All three sources took either a neutral, minor, or highly biased position where the CBS article, the “Our Families Are Under Attack, So We Rise Up” article, and the “No Release for State Dreamer” article. While it is the essential job for the media to stay neutral, these mass media outlets are the ones that harbor the responsibility for perpetuation of misinformation due to their chosen pieces of research and evidence that they decide to integrate into their articles for all of the media to

Misconstruing quotes by Fox News can be interpreted as another way of being bias, pushing their view, and lying. In support of this, Fox News had done an interview with an ATF spokeswoman about guns from the United States being found at Mexican crime scenes but was misquoted. Fox News reported that only seventeen percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes had been traced to the United States.

How do the different U.S. mainstream media such as newspapers and other types of news like television networks portray recent debates about illegal immigration? There will be a main focus on the New York Times representing the U.S., being one of the top prestigious papers of this nation, and the trusted channel CNN. With the variety of sources now established, we can now compare and point out its differences as well as similarities, and analyze the point of views of the people involved. As we compare these two sources, I will not only observe the article’s facts and interviews, but also, the way they portray immigrants and officials on the chosen images. We will also see distinguish the real facts from the ones that framed as facts by

Immigration has always been a contentious issue in the United States. Benjamin Franklin thought that an influx in German migration into the United States would flush out the predominately British culture at that time. Furthermore, a continual wave of foreign cultures began pouring into the American metropolitan areas at the turn of the 20th century. The migration of these people began a mass assimilation of cultural ideology and customs into the United States. With recent technological advancements, such as television and the internet, news and information can be widely shared concerning immigration. With the continual increase of news programs, Americans today are often bombarded with all sorts of pressing issues in today's society-

Both the article by CNN and The Intercept have the same viewpoint on this subject. They both personally

There are many contrasting points about FOX and CBS news focusing on Pokemon Go. The biggest difference was the volume of each news. FOX had somewhat long articles for each issue and consists videos and data to support their claim, whereas CBS did not have as much content, precisely describing, no videos and had minimal information. This distinct variation may be a cause of the political party these media support. To explain, some characteristics of democratic party consists stronger regulation on business and infrastructure and support universal health care while the republican party wants less regulations on business and infrastructure and more competition regarding medical issues. For this reason, it is predictable to state that FOX thinks

To understand what state the modern media system is in, one must firmly understand what bias is. Media bias is present “when a political belief or commercial interest distorts the level of reporting” (“Media Bias” 1). If a political station provides positive or accurate information to only one side, then the station can be considered biased. Another form of bias is known as sensationalism. Sensationalism is the creation of panic or fear by over-reporting or over-inflating individual news stories, often blurring facts or reporting speculation as facts. A modern and familiar example of media

Many immigrants come to the United States in search of the opportunity to have a better life. They have the willingness to work, seek out educational opportunities and to be productive members and contributors to society. Rarely do you find those instances where immigrants come here to take, destroy all that our nation has built and established. When you hear the current administration in the media use fear, as part of cultural destructiveness to destroy how our society view other cultures and diminish the worth of individuals within their own Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, Thomas, (pg. 64, 2012). By doing that the narrative around immigrants’ changes, people start to believe that immigrants are here committing crimes and a higher rate in comparison to Americans that are born here; For instance, during one of Donald’s Trump 2016 campaign speeches he said “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re

The article “ICE raids and White House schemes provoke fear in Latino families.” Was featured in the LA Times, a center-left publication, on 2/17/2017. The author of the article is David Horsey. Throughout the article Horsey cherry-picks facts, although the cherry-picked ones are accurate, presents his side of the issue without giving much credit to the opposing side, presents a strong slant in the writing, provides some background information, and does not present a realistic discussion of possible solutions.