Scripts for Fox "News" Immigration Rants found in 1952 Magazine

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/07/the_greatest_most_racist_gener.php

​Of course this feature about a "wetback deluge" is disgusting and upsetting, and reading it is something like letting one of those Minuteman guys vomit again and again inside your brain. What's even nastier, perhaps, is that your Crap Archivist found it in People Today, a mainstream digest of bathing beauties and bizarre sports stories, rather than some supremacist rag. (Look for those bathing beauties and sports stories below, incidentally.)

But what's creepiest about it is how similar it is to today's coverage of illegal immigration.

People Today says:

"Wetbacks slip in by the tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands (officials won't even guess.)"
"this invasion of cheap labor sprinkled with fugitives and Red agents"
"Some of the hardest workers are escaped criminals."
" favorite spot is where a fence straddles a mosquito-infested 5-ft.-wide creek flowing into the U.S. with excrement from wetbacks' village in Mexicali."

Just like then, nobody knows exactly how many undocumented workers have journeyed north from Mexico, but that won't stop media professionals from just cold making up some numbers, deeming them threats to national security, accusing them of miscellaneous savagery, and associating them with sewage, disease, and general un-American un-healthiness.

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