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2.11 The Washington Times
The Washington Times is a daily newspaper, founded and published in Washington, D.C. since 1982. Its political stance is known by American people as
right-leaning, or
simply said,
it is
a conservative
newspaper http:www.rightwingwatch.orgcategoryorganizationswashington-times.
The Washington Times delivers news about undocumented immigrants in a harsh and negative way. It is against the enactment of the immigration reform and this
newspaper is likely to accuse undocumented immigrants for causing problems. The researcher uses the editorial of this newspaper entitled “Tough questions about
immigration reform” published on July 3, 2013, as the source of data. This editorial talks about the unnecessity of the immigration reform to be enacted. Here, the
undocumented immigrants are depicted as the “actors” who cause chaos, commit crime, run across the U.S. border, and so on, which are against the U.S. law. Thus,
the undocumented immigrants are not expected to be made legal of being the U.S. citizens.
2.12 Immigration Reform
Immigration reform is what is talked about in both editorials. It is defined as a term used in political discussion regarding changes to current immigration policy of a
country. Here, “reform” means to change into an improved form or condition. It can be by amending or removing faults or abuses. In the political sense, “immigration
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reform” may include promoted, expanded, or open immigration, as well as reduced or eliminated immigration.
The term is widely used to describe proposals to increase legal immigration while decreasing illegal immigration, due to the fact that illegal immigration is a
controversial issue in the United States. Both editorials are dated in 2013 when many campaigns for the enactment of
immigration reform in the U.S. were conducted. The campaigns were initiated by Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy group, known as Fwd.us, which manages to
wage lobbying campaign that helped push forward the legislation that would allow for unauthorized immigrants to become U.S. citizens and increase the flow of highly
skilled foreign workers in science and technology. The immigration reform enactment campaigns in year 2013 are aimed at
convincing Republicans in Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people illegally living in the country, authorize more temporary
work visas, and increase security on the border with Mexico.
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