Green card TV

The headline is from Franklin Avenue, the blog by Michael Schneider and Maria Villar that is having a good week. Their top item today is about this morning's L.A. Times story on "Gana la Verde" (Win the Green), a reality show on Spanish-language KCRA channel 62. Contestants are illegal immigrants who do difficult "Fear Factor"-like stunts, hoping to win the free services of lawyers who will help them apply for resident green cards. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the new INS) tells reporter Maria Elena Fernandez: "They are holding out false hope to people...It sounds very much like exploitation."

Franklin Avenue also hears that Radio Air America is doing well enough in New York and Portland that there's talk of an AM station here — KLAC 570 or KXTA 1150 — switching format to the liberal talk network. Air America has been off the air here since April. The blog also discusses the TV show "Westside" that ABC might pick up, set in the world of L.A. real estate agents.

6:58 PM Wednesday, August 4 2004 • Link
More by tag: Blogs & bloggers | Radio | Television
Email or share:

Doesn't the concept of "Gana La Verde" sound awfully like that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Running Man? Where are the dead bodies? Oh wait, they already exist, in the Arizona desert.

Posted by: Robert Chang at August 4, 2004 07:30 PM

Yes, Robert, no one likes that situation. So, perhaps you should consider working against the left-right coalition that enjoys the fruits of illegal immigration. The left-side wants the votes and the ethnic-based power, the right-side wants the cheap labor they can exploit in ways that citizens and legal residents wouldn't accept. Both sides work together to provide incentives for living here illegally: the left and the right work to pass laws giving driver's licences to illegal aliens, fight laws designed to prevent the acceptance of IDs only of use to illegal aliens (Matricula Consular cards), etc. etc. The right-side provides the jobs safe in the knowledge that our government - whether Dem or Repub - has about a 1 in 100,000 chance of conducting an enforcement operation against the business.

The solution is not amnesty. Those businesses that employ illegals do so for a reason. An amnesty will simply create more legal workers. Those businesses that like hiring illegals are not going to suddenly start hiring legal workers just because there are more of them. Recall: legal workers have rights that illegal workers don't. Those businesses will simply cause more illegals to be imported.

The solution is quite simple: enforce our immigration laws. That will result in much lower demand and instead of hiring illegals employers will be forced to hire citizens or legal residents.

Here are some victims that haven't gotten much press coverage for some reason, and also see Frustrated traffickers target agents.

Posted by: The Lonewacko Blog at August 5, 2004 12:03 PM
Comment posting has been turned off









Remember personal info?






© 2003-2008   •  About LA Observed  •  Contact the editor
LA Biz Observed
8:26 AM Fri | Gas prices fall for 10th straight week, Valley home prices increase slightly, and Culver City blogger charged with felony.
6:56 AM Fri | CNBC's John Harwood is reporting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has only been in office a little over a...
Featured bloggers at LA Observed
Adrienne Crew | Skylight Books celebrates its expansion with a party on August 30th and a new, racy blog. Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's guide to Southern California Literary and Book Festivals appears in the September issue of Westways magazine.
Adrienne Crew | Malibu resident, Dr. Richard Ehrlich, shares insights on an upcoming exhibit of his photos documenting a secretive Holocaust archive.
Phil Wallace | Kickoff approaches for USC football; the Dodgers continue to struggle
Sponsors
Jewish Journal logo
California Wellness Foundation
Playa Vista ad
Premium Blogads

 
Books, Blogs & Events

Get RSS Feeds
of LA Observed
LA Observed publishes several Real Simple Syndication feeds for easy scanning of headlines. If you wish to subscribe to a feed, most popular RSS readers will do it for you. You can also enter the web address from the XML button below or click on a specific feed. For more help with RSS, try here or here.




Add to Google