Rep. Maxine Waters Suggests to Fox News Owner, Murdoch that Fox Should Push Amnesty..

[ponycar17]

Rupert Murdoch Defends Fox News’ Immigration Coverage While Calling For Path To Legalization

Today, Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch testified before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership on the “Role of Immigration in Strengthening America’s Economy.” In his testimony, Murdoch called for comprehensive immigration reform which includes a path to citizenship that brings 11-12 million new people into the U.S. tax base. According to Murdoch, “it’s impossible to secure our borders without an overall package of reforms”:

Our partnership advocates reform that gives a path to citizenship to responsible, law-abiding immigrants who are in the U.S. today without proper authority. It is nonsense to talk about expelling 11 or 12 million people. Not only is it impractical, it is cost-prohibitive. A study this year put the cost of mass deportation at $285 billion over five years. There are better ways to spend our money. [...]

A full path to legalization: requiring unauthorized immigrants to register, undergo a security check, pay taxes, and learn English would bring these immigrants out of a shadow economy and into our tax base. According to one study, a path to legalization would contribute an estimated $1.5 trillion to the gross domestic product over ten years.

Earlier this year, Murdoch indicated that the media should be involved in the push for comprehensive immigration reform. However, Fox News employees don’t seem to agree. The Wonk Room shows that more than any other network, Fox News has repeatedly and consistently advocated against immigration reform and referred to Murdoch’s proposal as “amnesty.”

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called Murdoch out on the blatant contradiction later in the hearing, pointing out, “it does not appear that what you are talking and the way you are discussing it is the way it is discussed on Fox.” Murdoch defended his position and his network:

We are home to all views on Fox. [...] We don’t censor that or take any particular line at all. We are not anti-immigrant on Fox News. [...] We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox. In all arms of Fox. We have many immigrants there and we do not take a consistent anti-immigrant line.

Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dD1e...layer_embedded ....

From http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/30/...migration-fox/

So, the Fox News owner, Rupert Murdoch supports amnesty for illegals and he doesn't use his news network to push his personal agenda? Isn't that wildly different than other networks' owners?

It's rare that you hear a liberal ADMITTING that they want to use the media to push their agenda but we're certainly hearing a lot of it lately.

[Shooter45]

According to Murdoch, “it’s impossible to secure our borders without an overall package of reforms”:

"Our partnership advocates reform that gives a path to citizenship to responsible, law-abiding immigrants who are in the U.S. today without proper authority. It is nonsense to talk about expelling 11 or 12 million people. "

Read the above paragraph....twice if needed.

What do these folks not understand about " law-abiding" If they are in the USA without proper authority, they are criminals. Plain and simple.

[ponycar17]

Oh, I agree Shooter! I just thought that the most interesting part of this testimony was that Rep. Waters admitted her desire for a power play by those with means to push liberal policy.

[Shooter45]

I also agree but do you think ANY of them have a clue as to what they are doing ??

They are all Morons.

[ponycar17]

Originally Posted by Shooter45

I also agree but do you think ANY of them have a clue as to what they are doing ??

They are all Morons.

I think that Murdoch is more of a business man, in that he knows what the people want to see, irrespective of his interests. Other network controlling interests try pushing their ideology selectively. Take GE for example, who controls a large part of MSNBC. I wonder if there's any correlation between GE's alternative energy technologies and MSNBC's pro-environazi stance? Hmmmm...

[jack404]

Murdoch and packer both took the UN line when things where going bad here , the news companies that did not take the UN line where "The Sun " and "The Mirror" or The daily Mirror " they are both gone now , persona non gratia to all news for a year will do that , no interveiws from government or big business..

now murdoch and packer are the two biggest news empires on the planet

they played ball with the UN and helped pushed there agenda in Australia , and now are doing so in the rest of the world..

[ofitg]

So expelling the illegals would cost $285 billion over five years? Do it.

It would be a better use of our money than Bush's $700-billion bank bailout in 2008, and Obama's $787-billion stimulus bill in 2009.