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Originally Posted by Greg in LA

If amnesty was so popular, why the need to have such a heavy handed coordination in broadcasting the pro amnesty point of view.

It's called "keeping the pressure on".

There was an old method of execution which involved placing a large sheet of wood over the intended and gradually placing stones on the wood until the person was suffocated or otherwise crushed to death.

The media is face down in the proverbial leftist lap, they want to see an amnesty and they will propagandize and spin until it's an accomplished fact or a moot or dangerous issue to push.

The local southern California papers were full of daily "poor, downtrodden, oppressed immigrant just trying to feed his family" stories until the 2008 recession when it was difficult to proceed with that slant with an effective 16% or more unemployment figure (The EDD and federal figures are always low for what they don't take into account concerning the under and fully unemployed) without a serious backlash and decline in sales.

However, the local print media is getting back into the mode with stories featuring "undocumented" college students who "aren't afraid" (while ignoring the large high school drop out rates of their siblings and cousins) rather than the minimally English speaking lawn rakers and unskilled nail pounders the media previously spun into model citizens...

...still keeping the pressure on.