# US Immigration politics **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 14, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-immigration-politics/997564 "2024-02-14T18:57:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 54
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-immigration-politics/997564/54 "2024-02-21T00:11:51Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > The entire article was engineered to only ever produce two responses: pat yourself on the back for being a good citizen on the migrant issue or look, you idiot, you’ve been deceived into thinking the problem is worse than it is. How is “certain other sources of news and opinion are engaging in a program of misleading and manipulating the public discourse about an important topic” **not** news?! News media should expose when businesses and government officials are cheating organizations and individuals of their money, but be silent when the lies and fraud don’t have a concrete price tag? 🤨 We all have our opinions, on immigration and other matters of public policy. But there’s only one reality, and some things are a matter of fact rather than opinion. For instance, we can’t properly debate what to do about climate change when millions believe it doesn’t exist. The role of media used to be, and many would say is supposed to be, to give us a common set of facts that is hopefully as close to the truth as fallible human beings can get. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-immigration-politics/997564)._