Journalists know absolutely nothing about immigration and refuse to learn, so when I cited the fraudulent "humanitarian" cases on TV Sunday night, I footnoted myself live on air, citing a New Yorker article as well as my book, "Adios, America," which has nearly 100 pages of footnotes. That should make it easy for even the stupidest reporters.
You haven't met The Hill's Jacqueline Thomsen! She was at a loss. The New Yorker? What's that? Jacqueline thought and thought and thought, until her head hurt! Finally, she decided, as she wrote in The Hill, "It's unclear what New Yorker article Coulter was referring to."
Armed only with the information that there was an article in a tiny little publication known as "The New Yorker" about asylum applicants being coached on their fake asylum claims, how could an American reporter ever hope to locate "The Asylum Seeker" in the Aug. 1, 2011, New Yorker? Forget "Adios, America," where it is cited, along with many, many other sources. I can't read a BOOK, Thomsen thought to herself.
I Googled "New Yorker asylum," and the article I was referring to came up as the third item in the list. Add "coaching" or "coached," and it's the very first item Google gives you. It took 3 seconds.
Thomsen: HOW DOES GOOGLE WORK, ANYWAY?
The New Yorker article begins with "Caroline," an illegal alien from a middle-class family in Africa, who passed herself off to U.S. immigration authorities as a victim of rape and torture. As she admitted to The New Yorker, while giggling: "I have never been raped."
Being an insider is not always a happy lot. You know what the American people do not: what goes on in the federal bureaucracy, and how bureaucrats and political appointees misuse tax dollars. Recent stories about the attempted coup d’etat by the intelligence community and the Democratic Party illustrate the principle.
But the Deep State’s attacking a duly elected president isn’t the only example. Sometimes, the Deep State connives with the president, and I am not referring to the Obama-led attempt to sway the election, or his executive implementation of the failed DREAM act, which amounted to an administrative amnesty.
Because of my post in the immigration enforcement bureaucracy, I can tell VDARE.com’s readers that President Obama wasn’t the first to simply ignore immigration law. That honor belonged to President Bill Clinton, assisted by immigration lawyer Paul Virtue, then general counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Before telling you about Virtue, some background on what Congress was doing in those days.
In 1996, it passed and Clinton signed the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, an attempt to clamp down on immigrant welfare use, visa violators and illegal immigration. New rules would punish illegal aliens who entered the United States using a nonimmigrant visa, meaning a temporary visitor’s visa, and violated its terms with forbidden activities or overstaying the period of admission. The bill also created expedited removal, meaning immediate deportation without a hearing in the immigration courts.
The Clinton Administration immediately began slow-walking expedited removal, abandoning a powerful weapon against illegal aliens. So illegal aliens—whom I believe now number about 20 million—continued flooding the country. Had expedited removal been fully implemented, many of those illegals would not be here.
Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives.
When researchers ignore contradictory data that undermines their assumptions, junk science prevails. When police conduct investigations with predetermined outcomes, wrongful convictions abound. And when reporters cherry-pick facts and distort images to serve political agendas, media outlets become dangerous weapons of mass manipulation.
Take Talia Lavin, a young journalist who has enjoyed a meteoric rise. Her pedigree appears impeccable on its face: She graduated with a degree in comparative literature from Harvard University six years ago. After graduation, she won a Fulbright Scholar fellowship to study in Ukraine. She "worked in all realms" of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news agency and wire service, copy-edited for the feminist Lilith Magazine, and contributed stories and translations for the Huffington Post.
Lavin has held the coveted position of "fact-checker" for the revered New Yorker for the past three years. The publication brags that its "fact-checking department is known for its high standards." It demands the ability "to quickly analyze a manuscript for factual errors, logical flaws, and significant omissions." The editorial department requires "a strong understanding of ethical reporting standards and practices" and prefers "proficiency or fluency in a second language."
Above: The New York Times's Wil Hylton wrote: "[O]ne of the most incendiary pieces to carry the notorious ‘‘black crime’’ tag was written by a man named Jerome Hudson, who, like some other black conservatives, worries that the focus on police brutality is siphoning outrage away from gang violence."
The Main Stream Media was fairly obsessed with the fact that the upstart conservative site Breitbart had a “Black Crime” tag while Steve Bannon was still running it, making special mention of it in their respective “point and splutter”-style articles about how vile they consider Breitbart to be [Here Are Some Of The Incendiary Stories Published By Trump's Chief Strategist, by Tasneem Nashrulla, BuzzFeed, November 14, 2016; We Finally Know What Is Too Openly Racist Even for Breitbart, by David Uberti, Splinter News, February 5, 2018; Down the Breitbart Hole, by Wil S. Hylton, The New York Times, August 16, 2017].
While technically true, the situation was overstated. In all of 2015 and 2016, a grand total of seven Breitbart articles were tagged with “Black Crime.” That made for an average of about one “Black Crime” story every four months. Surely not even Leftists think there is that little black crime.
Moreover, during that time Breitbart would report black crime, but not actually tag it “Black Crime.” For example, Black Man Accused of Rape Told Victim He Targeted Her ‘Because She’s White,’ published on November 5, 2016, was never tagged “Black Crime.” It is tagged “Big Government” though… I don’t know why.
At some point in late 2017 or early 2018, Breitbart deleted the tag altogether. Presumably it did this because it decided the tag was unseemly. However, on strictly utilitarian grounds, if you are only using a tag once every few months, you may as well delete it—especially if said tag isn’t comprehensive, and theirs was not.
But then the tag was revived for the February 26, 2018 article Sheriff David Clarke: Democrats ‘Have Screwed this Country Up with Failed, Liberal Urban Policies,’ written by the distinctly swarthy Adelle Nazarian. (Right.)
Except that when the tag was revived, none of the articles that had been tagged “Black Crime” before regained the tag. The “Black Crime” tag showed just one article: Nazarian’s about Sheriff Clarke.
Not that it mattered much, as the “Black Crime” tag was deleted entirely once again shortly thereafter.
All of the articles that had this tag are still on the site, mind you, it’s just that they no longer have the tag “Black C
"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their parents.
"Disgraceful," adds Dr. Franklin Graham.
"We need to be ... a country that governs with a heart," says first lady Melania Trump. "No one likes this policy," says White House aide Kellyanne Conway, even "the president wants this to end."
And so it shall—given the universal denunciations and photos of sobbing children being pulled from parents. Yet striking down the policy will leave America's immigration crisis still unresolved.
Consider. Since 2016, some 110,000 children have entered the U.S. illegally and been released, along with 200,000 Central American families caught sneaking across the border.
Reflecting its frustration, the White House press office declared:
"We can't deport them, we can't separate them, we can't detain them, we can't prosecute them. What (the Democrats) want is a radical open-border policy that lets everyone out into the interior of this country with virtually no documentation whatsoever."
