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TV News Flops in Covering the Mississippi Worksite Raids

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TV News Flops in Covering the Mississippi Worksite Raids
 
By Jerry Kammer on August 12, 2019

The trauma of worksite raids like the ones conducted by ICE last week in Mississippi would have ended decades ago if the federal government — the Congress and the successive presidential administrations — had carried out the reforms Congress enacted 33 years ago. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 combined amnesty for 2.7 million unauthorized immigrants with the mandate that employers verify that their new hires were eligible to work in the United States.

But the good intentions of the bill's sponsors were overwhelmed by the strange-bedfellows coalition of ethnic groups looking for empowerment, employers looking for cheap labor, and libertarians of the left and right who oppose government regulation. So instead of demonstrating that our government was serious about stopping illegal immigration, the law produced a protracted exercise of illegal immigrants pretending to be legal and employers pretending to believe them.

https://cis.org/Kammer/TV-News-Flops-Covering-Mississippi-Worksite-Raids

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