Walker Chat With Unauthorized Immigrants Censored On Spanish
By Jorge Bonilla, July 28, 2015 NewsBusters
Confrontations between unauthorized immigrant protesters and presidential candidates are usually gold to the national Spanish-language networks. They typically serve to advance this media segment’s favored immigration narrative, as well as depict immigration dissidents as “anti-immigrant” or “insensitive.”
When these videos accomplish their objectives, they are blasted all over Univision, Telemundo, and MundoFox newscasts, as well as on ImpreMedia’s print and social media footprints. But what happens when the confrontation doesn’t go as intended?
These staged and carefully-planned confrontations typically target a politician (near-universally a Republican male), seemingly caught off-guard by young “Dreamers” who demand to know why X does not unequivocally support a pathway to citizenship. The politician will cycle through his first set of talking points, which will be met by an emotional response (some variant of “why do you want to deport my parents?”). At that point, one of two things usually happens:
When these videos accomplish their objectives, they are blasted all over Univision, Telemundo, and MundoFox newscasts, as well as on ImpreMedia’s print and social media footprints. But what happens when the confrontation doesn’t go as intended?
These staged and carefully-planned confrontations typically target a politician (near-universally a Republican male), seemingly caught off-guard by young “Dreamers” who demand to know why X does not unequivocally support a pathway to citizenship. The politician will cycle through his first set of talking points, which will be met by an emotional response (some variant of “why do you want to deport my parents?”). At that point, one of two things usually happens:
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