{"id":9539,"date":"2013-04-23T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T22:49:02","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-fox-gives-illegal-immigrants-full-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9539","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Fox Gives ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Full Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing to cling obsessively to their anti-Latino bigotry, Fox News latched unto a story in Politico that speculated about an electoral windfall for Democrats if the immigration bill winding through congress becomes law. The Politico story was not particularly well-reasoned (and an article in The Guardian<\/a> masterfully rebuts it), but, true to form, the lie-factory at Fox Nation<\/a> took a weak argument and made it even less palatable with their trademark brand of hyperbole and inbred prejudice.<\/p>\n

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The title, “Immigration Bill Gives Illegal Immigrants Full Voting Rights,”<\/em> is patently false. No one other than an actual citizen is permitted to vote in this country and the pending immigration bill doesn’t change that. In fact, it contains a provision that explicitly punishes anyone who is not a citizen, if they unlawfully cast a ballot, by precluding them from obtaining citizenship.<\/p>\n

So Fox’s assertion that “illegal Immigrants”<\/em> will get full voting rights is dead wrong. And so is their unrelenting use of the derogatory phrase “illegal Immigrants.”<\/em> Many news outlets have ceased to use the term that is considered offensive by those to whom it refers. Even the Fox News Latino web site has formally abandoned it.<\/p>\n

The gist of the Politico article<\/a> is that Democrats stand to gain electorally if the estimated 11 million undocumented residents were to become citizens. However, the legislation currently being debated contains a pathway to citizenship that would take thirteen years to complete. A lot can happen in politics in thirteen years. What’s more, there is no indication that all of the 11 million would ever become full citizens (either by choice or due to the stringent requirements in the law), or that those who did would ever register and turn out to vote.<\/p>\n

So even if the Fox Nationalists had not overplayed their rhetorical bias in the headline, the facts would still not support their panicky fear of a browner, more Democratic electorate. That prospect is already manifest and is due primarily to the fact that Democrats welcome a more diverse society, while Republicans insult and demean minorities and aspiring citizens.<\/p>\n

If the folks at Fox, and their allies in the GOP, are worried about losing future elections due to an expanding voter pool (and they should be), they might try not deliberately alienating the fastest growing demographic group in the nation, rather than trying to obstruct legal citizens from voting with measures that disenfranchise minorities, seniors, students, and the poor. But that would put them at odds with their Tea Party contingent and the confederate dead-enders that are the core of their southern strategy. It’s kind of a rock-and-a-hard-place dilemma for the them. Except the rock is equality and the hard place is their compulsive hatred for anyone not like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing to cling obsessively to their anti-Latino bigotry, Fox News latched unto a story in Politico that speculated about an electoral windfall for Democrats if the immigration bill winding through congress becomes law. The Politico story was not particularly well-reasoned (and an article in The Guardian masterfully rebuts it), but, true to form, the lie-factory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,417],"tags":[527,1143],"class_list":["post-9539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-racism","tag-fox-nation","tag-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2tR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10594,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10594","url_meta":{"origin":9539,"position":0},"title":"More Anti-Latino Bias On Fox Nation","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/21\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Fox News community web site (and Fib Factory) Fox Nation, has a long record of insulting Latinos and lying about about issues that affect them. 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