Yesterday’s subject regarded a “typo” in an article about VP Biden and gun control. I mentioned it since it was a pretty slow day for news, but mainly because mistakes of all kinds and Biden seem to be natural partnerships.
Then, just a few moments ago, quickly scanning items on Fox News on-line, my eye skipped to the end of the first paragraph in the following item:
“Senators say bipartisan immigration reform will include citizenship path:
Top Senate Democrats and Republicans said Sunday the bipartisan legislation on immigration reform to be announced this week will include a one-step, comprehensive bill that includes a path to citizenship for the estimated the 11 people living illegally in the United States.”
Now, if the article’s correct, and there are only 11 illegal aliens in the nation, it seems to me an awful lot of time, verbiage and money's being spent on a much smaller issue than I was led to believe it was. In fact, a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates the “annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be about $113 billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at the state and local level.”
Since that works out to be $20.545 billion per person per year for the 11 already in residence, I now have absolutely no doubt as to why these folks keep trying to sneak in here.
But all kidding aside, the reason I wrote this subject up today is that I think those who take responsibility for reporting news and informing the public ought to at least review their work instead of disseminating it without carefully checking for errors, typos and words simply left out.
However, folks today read less and less, preferring broadcast media instead. So perhaps that’s why writers concerns about quality and accuracy fall more and more than by the wayside, because there are so few left to impress.
That's it for today folks.
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