Media Don’t Factcheck Right-Wing Migration Myths
Right-wing figures get little pushback when they promote evidence-free, often absurd claims about incentives for unauthorized immigration.
David L. Wilson
Media ‘Border Crisis’ Threatens Immigration Reform
Establishment coverage has featured hyperbole about recent migration trends and an inexcusable lack of historical context. Worse yet, this style of reporting could sabotage prospects for a long overdue reform of the US immigration system.
Crediting Xenophobia—Rather Than Organizing—With Raising Workers’ Wages
It’s not really surprising that the Economist chose to focus on immigration policy rather than minimum wage regulations as an explanation for pay increases. Corporate media tend to be critical of calls to lift the wage floor, often citing exaggerated claims about unemployment.
The Illusion of Immigrant Criminality
Immigrants aren’t a crime problem. “The foreign-born commit considerably fewer crimes than the native-born,” as President Herbert Hoover’s National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement concluded in 1931 (National Lawyers Guild Quarterly, 10/39; Immigration Policy Center, Spring/07). While noncitizens now make up more than 8 percent of the U.S. population, the available evidence indicates that […]
The Mexican ‘Miracle’
On May 22, 1993, soldiers from the Mexican army accidentally ran across a guerrilla training camp in the jungles of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. One army officer and one civilian were killed in the clashes that followed, according to the military. The incident was given prominent coverage in La Jornada, a popular, moderately […]
