these comments from Bill o'Reilly interesting - and disturbing -- js
>
>>>On Thursday, February 6, FOX commentator Bill O'Reilly interviewed
>>>Congressman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) about
>>>the U.S./Mexico border. In the interview, O'Reilly refers to
>>>undocumented Mexican immigrants as
>>>"wetbacks." A partial transcript of the interview is available at:
>>>
>>><http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77898,00.html>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77898,00.html
>>>
>>>
>The following is a section taken from the partial interview I cut
>and pasted to
>this e-mail from the webpage above.
>
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>>O'REILLY: You believe in the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy hasn't worked in 35
>> years.
>>
>> REYES: Bill, when you talk about the amount of narcotics coming
>>into this country,
>> 90 percent of those narcotics come through the ports of entry,
>>not in between the
>> ports of entry where the Border Patrol is patrolling. They come
>>through the ports of
>> entry. That's why I'm saying let's give the Homeland Security Agency an
>> opportunity...
>>
>> O'REILLY: All right. Let me...
>>
>> REYES: ... to get the technology to help.
>>
>> O'REILLY: What would be the harm in moving troops to help the
>>Border Patrol not
>> only in Mexico, but in Canada, where they just found a big Al
>>Qaeda big shot up
>> there. We know that border's a sieve as well.
>>
>> What is the harm in giving us more protection by using the
>>military the way they
>> should be used? If you read the Constitution, the military's
>>primary mandate is to
>> protect the borders of the United States.
>>
>> REYES: Bill, immediately after 9/11, we did do that. We deployed
>>several thousand
>> military people, both on the northern border and some on the
>>southern border.
>>
>> We did not have the resources. It costs too much to continue that kind of a
>> deployment around the clock and throughout the year. That's why
>>I'm advocating that
>> we continue to hire professional law-enforcement officers.
>>
>> Let's supplement them with the kind of technology that's
>>available today, that...
>>
>> O'REILLY: Oh, I am with you there. You've got to get the
>>high-tech stuff there.
>>
>> But I'll tell you what. I've talked to the commanders, and they
>>tell me, "Look, you
>> deploy us down there, we stop the drug traffic dead"…
>>
>> We'd save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to
>>call them, the
>> coyotes -- they're not going to do what they're doing now, so
>>people aren't going to
>> die in the desert. So we save lives, all right, and we seal it
>>down and make it 100
>> times harder to come across.
>>
>> And 79 percent of Americans see that, Congressman. You are in the
>>minority on this
>> one, and so is President Bush. I'll give you the last word.
>>
>> REYES: Listen, just because we're in the minority doesn't mean
>>we're not right, Bill. I
>> already told you, if you're concerned about narcotics, then we
>>need to focus on the
>> ports of entry. That's where 90 percent of the narcotics...
>>
>> O'REILLY: The Army will be there as well, Congressman. They'll be
>>there with their
>> high-tech gear, with their nightscopes and everything else.
>>
>> All right. We appreciate you coming on.
>>
>> REYES: Thank you, Bill.
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John Sanchez, Assistant Professor
Journalism/News Media Ethics
Penn State University
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University Park, PA 16802
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