{"id":7220,"date":"2014-07-15T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:51:18","slug":"could-the-mainstream-media-be-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/07\/15\/could-the-mainstream-media-be-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Mainstream Media Be Waking Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Awake_Groa_Awake_Mother_-_John_Bauer\"<\/a>Sporadic Outbreaks of Truth Being Reported…<\/p>\n

Just a few months ago most of the major newspapers portrayed President Obama as the Deporter-in-Chief. The stories hyped flawed statistics claiming the president was inhumanely removing an unprecedented number of illegal aliens, despite factual evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Truth be told \u2013 and FAIR told it many times to tin ears \u2013 Obama\u2019s deportation numbers have steadily declined year after year and are now on par with the Ford Administration\u2019s.\u00a0 The mainstream media also ignored the fact that enforcement officials have been quietly instructed to remove only aliens convicted of violent felonies while ignoring most other illegal aliens.\u00a0 Given those realities, we\u2019re surprised, yet pleased, to notice a subtle shift towards more honest reporting on the numbers and opinion editors linking Obama\u2019s dismantling of immigration enforcement to the current border surge.<\/p>\n

On April 1 of this year \u2013 and it was no April Fool\u2019s Joke \u2013 the Los Angeles Times ran a story, High Deportation Numbers Misleading<\/i>.\u00a0 The article reported that, \u201cexpulsions of people who are settled and working in the United States have fallen steadily since his first year in office, and are down more than 40% since 2009.\u201d It even quoted John Sandweg, a former acting director of ICE as saying, \u201cif you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally, your odds of getting deported are close to zero \u2014 it’s just highly unlikely to happen. ” And we needed the smelling salts after reading last week\u2019s lead editorial in the Washington Post that acknowledged, \u201clax enforcement patterns that have allowed tens of thousands of young immigrants to stay in this country after entering without documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given this administration\u2019s monumental mismanagement of so many issues, perhaps the recent truth telling about Obama\u2019s immigration debacle may be more than outbreaks of \u201caccidental journalism.\u201d\u00a0 Could it possibly be that factual reporting on Obama\u2019s screw-ups make for more compelling copy than stale stories promoting his amnesty agenda?\u00a0 With newspapers losing circulation, money and credibility, factual reporting might ironically be a fashionable new trend that revitalizes the medium.<\/p>\n