{"id":22375,"date":"2020-01-09T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2020-01-09T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:51:25","slug":"hollywood-illegal-immigrants-media-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/09\/hollywood-illegal-immigrants-media-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s Latest Illegal Alien Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Party of Five<\/a><\/em> was a primetime soap opera that aired on the Fox Television Network from 1994-2000. And the series is now back in a reboot version to be carried by Disney Television\u2019s Freeform<\/a> cable channel. However, in addition to demonstrating that there really is nothing new under the sun in Entertainment Land, Party of Five 2020<\/em> also proves just how tone deaf television producers really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original series told the story of the five Salinger children as they struggled to keep their family together after their parents were killed by a drunk driver in the first episode. This was groundbreaking stuff for Hollywood<\/a>. From the 1950s to the 1980s, television executives saw their products as an escape from reality. Happy themes tended to predominate and the good guys generally triumphed (think The Love Boat<\/a><\/em> and The A-Team<\/a><\/em>). Any gritty realism that existed on TV screens was reserved for cop shows and war movies. Detailing the lives of five kids dealing with the permanent loss of their guardian-providers was something truly novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each episode centered on the ways\nin which the Salinger kids had to step-up and accept the responsibilities\ninherent in running a family and managing their family\u2019s restaurant. Sub-plots\nrevolved around the ways in which the simultaneous loss of both parents\nrepresents an irrevocable end to one\u2019s childhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time around we get the story of the Acosta family. And it is accompanied by a clich\u00e9d account of the \u201cdifficulties\u201d they face when their illegal alien parents are deported, and the kids are left in the U.S. to run the family\u2019s Mexican eatery. According to the Washington Post<\/a><\/em> the Acostas have \u201cspent two decades building a family and a business, paying taxes and pledging their patriotism.\u201d They feel<\/em> really, really American. Nevertheless, they\u2019re still tossed out of the U.S. because they can\u2019t show that they are bureaucratically American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a matter of immigration reality, it\u2019s an absurd premise. The right to remain in the U.S. is a political-legal one.\u00a0 It is conferred upon foreigners in accordance with American laws<\/a>. And those laws were, in turn, voted into effect by U.S. citizens. Authorization to live and work in the U.S. isn\u2019t something that foreign nationals \u201cdeserve\u201d as some kind of reward for not breaking any more laws after they have thumbed their noses at our legal system by jumping the border and remaining here unlawfully. Implying that it is \u2013 as the Post<\/em> and Disney do \u2013 shows a profound lack of respect for the fundamental premises upon which our civic life is constructed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s even dafter, is the fact\nthat Hollywood executives somehow think that Party of Five<\/em> 2020 <\/em>will\nevoke viewer empathy in the same manner as the original. The Salinger kids\u2019\nplight grabbed viewers because most children dread the idea of their parents\u2019\nsudden death. And everyone knows what it is like to permanently lose a loved\none. In short, the original Party of Five<\/em>\nallowed people to vicariously experience the emotions associated with a\nterrifying \u201cWhat if?\u201d with which we have all struggled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Acosta kids, on the other hand,\nhaven\u2019t suffered a permanent loss. In fact, the plot of Party of Five<\/em> 2020<\/em>\nrevolves heavily around the younger Acosta\u2019s Skyping and calling their parents,\nwho are alive and well in Mexico. If the young Acostas miss their parents badly\nenough, they can simply cross the border and be with them. The Salinger kids\ndidn\u2019t have that option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that brings us to the central failing of Party of Five<\/em> 2020.<\/em> Woke<\/a> Hollywood elites may see an equivalence between deportation and death, but that kind of hyperbole doesn\u2019t track with most law-abiding Americans. While typical viewers could see the Salinger kids as victims of cruel fate, they are more likely to see the Acosta\u2019s as victims<\/a> of an inconvenience brought on by their own lawbreaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only time will tell. But, unlike\nits predecessor, which was a television innovation, Party of Five<\/em> 2020<\/em> seems\nunlikely to make it beyond its first season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Party of Five was a primetime soap opera that aired on the Fox Television Network from 1994-2000. And the series is now back in a reboot version to be carried by Disney Television\u2019s Freeform cable channel. However, in addition to demonstrating that there really is nothing new under the sun in Entertainment Land, Party of<\/p>\n

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