{"id":22704,"date":"2020-03-27T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:15:43","slug":"illegal-immigrants-elites-media-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/03\/27\/illegal-immigrants-elites-media-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Be Famous? Be Illegal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the latest illegal alien to gain fame and fortune by whining about how gravely she and similarly situated illegals have been mistreated by the United States. Her new book, Undocumented America<\/em>, purports to be<\/a>, \u201cthe story of the devotion immigrants have for a country that wants to expel them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And literary critics have fallen head over heels for her writing, regularly spouting fatuous nonsense<\/a> like, \u201cParticularly in her depictions of immigrant women, Villavicencio reveals a fullness of character that feels subversive, simply because of how rare it is.\u201d The thing is, the kind of self-aggrandizing, \u201clook at me\u201d schlock that Ms. Villavicencio is peddling isn\u2019t new at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, the modern American literary canon is littered with books written by illegal aliens. They range from Jose Antonio Vargas<\/a>\u2019 Notes of an Undocumented Citizen<\/em> to Alberto Ledesma<\/a>\u2019s Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer<\/em> to Julissa Arce<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0 My (Underground) American Dream <\/em>and Someone Like Me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n They all follow a\nfamiliar pattern: Alien enters the U.S. unlawfully. Alien becomes a trespasser.\nAlien complains that he\/she isn\u2019t unquestioningly accepted as an American\nsimply because he\/she showed up here. \nThey all fail to accept any responsibility for their predicament. And\nnone of them provide a satisfactory explanation for why they believe the United\nStates owes them an apology for access to education, aid and economic\nopportunity they would never have had in their native countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That kind of ungrateful griping is a little tough to swallow from any illegal. After all, America\u2019s millions of uninvited guests<\/a> are free to go home if they aren\u2019t happy here. But in the case of these authors it is profoundly dishonest.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n