On Monday, Dan Fastenberg, writing for AOL.com, penned a piece lamenting Georgia’s new crackdown on illegal immigration, complaining that the legislation was meant to “drive out illegals.”
As with most of this nation’s press, Fastenberg wrongly reported that the new law uses “racial profiling” and creates a “backlash experienced by all Latinos.”
While ignoring this nation’s high unemployment, he also presented the tired (and false) argument that illegal aliens only “take jobs that few native-born Americans would willingly occupy.” http://http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/illegal-aliens-caught-on-their-way-to-work-at-a-federal-housing-project
So, nothing special or particularly interesting about those played-out and dishonest observations, right?
However, it was when Fastenberg began describing the town of Gainesville, Georgia, and the 177 taxis, all reportedly owned by “Hispanic-run companies,” which according to the former TIME Magazine reporter “knowingly shuttle around illegals” that this rather predictable article became most entertaining.
Fastenberg describes the taxis as “the Gainesville taxi-support system,” and actually went on to compare it to Harriet Tubman helping to free slaves in the South, using the Underground Railroad!
You can read the full piece here: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/08/15/illegal-immigrants-fight-the-drive-for-their-eviction-one-cab-at/?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl13|sec3_lnk2|86581
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