Nonsense of Ruben Navarrette

Today's CNN page has its usual intallement of the usual pro-illegal-immigration hogwash by Mr.Ruben Navarrette. The title of this particular link is "Border security is nonsense".

Now, anybody who's read even a few of Mr.Navarrette's many articles has had a fair chance to realize that with every publication, he is essentially betraying the interests of all Americans in favor of the special interests of the Hispanic groups, legal and illegal, that reside in this country. A full arsenal of demagoguery is deployed to refute a rather simple set of facts. For example, a few million of illegal border crossings per annum is portrayed as an insignificant number when compared to the size of the US population; it is asserted that the pervasive and growing usage of Spanish, despite obviously incoveniencing many Americans and splitting the nation into enclaves, is nothing to worry about; Mr. Navarrette also insists that unless the critically flawed immigration bill, which in the eyes of many amounts to encouraging criminal behavior, is passed, nothing will change (well duh, we need a better bill, -- we the American people, not you, Mr. Navarrette).

But today's article on CNN is just icing on that cake of duplicity, one which borders on the absurd. Wait, I take it back. There is no duplicity after all in that the author advocates, to put it in his words, "Latinization of the United States". How? Mr.Navarrette goes as far as to effectivley chastize people for fearing

that which terrifies many Americans: the Latinization of the United States.

I don't know about you, I like the United States of America just the way they are or at least used to be a few years ago. If Mr. Navarrete is such a big fan of Latinization, he shouldn't just wait till it comes to his doorstep, and move to Mexico instead, where he will have plenty of chances to reconnect with his heritage.

More to the point, Mr.Navarrette's goal in this article seems to be discredit the whole idea of tighter border security. I keep asking myself, what patriot and a sane person can be against that? In the demagoguery-driven and frankly lunatic world of Mr.Navarrette, however, the border security is a bad idea because it hasn't worked in the past. That's a classic reductio ad absurdum trick for you. It hasn't even been tried in earnest, and Mr.Navarrette has the nerve to tell us that's exactly why it's doomed to fail. Well, not being content with just that, he also goes for the ad hominem move, accusing the concerned citizens (including senators, no less) of lying about the importance of the border security because they are, well, afraid of Latinization.

I guess there is no such thing as unbiased journalism. However, when the bias becomes as large as to convey the air of mendacity and with so many parapgraphs in one's writing fall in the category of formal fallacy, it makes me feel sick in the stomach. I have no idea why CNN is even publishing this crap. Appealing to Mr. Navarrete for honesty and common sense, even rhetorically, is a waste of time so I won't do that to close this post.