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Could the Media Be to Blame for Immigration Reform’s Failure?

November 19, 2008 – 8:42 pm

A report released by the Brookings Institution in September asserts that the media’s framing of the immigration debate is to blame for the failure of comprehensive immigration reform in 2006 and 2007. The media’s narrative about immigration is one of “illegality, crisis, controversy and government failure,” the report states, and this narrative is open to [...]

By Amy Crawford | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged amnesty, Barack Obama, Brookings Institution, Columbia, EJ Dionne, Immigration, immigration raids, immigration reform | Comments

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