A “march” from Miami to Washington on behalf of illegal immigrants consisting of a grand total of four marchers somehow merited a 780-word New York Times article by reliably pro-amnesty reporter Julia Preston, “To Overhaul Immigration, Advocates Alter Tactics.”

By contrast, a massive anti-Obama rally that attracted over 100,000 people to the Capitol on September 12 resulted in virtually the same level of print coverage in the Times: A 932-word article.

The text box to Preston’s story on Saturday read: “Hoping that a four-person walk will resonate in a way mass marches did not.” That lack of resonance was not through any fault of Times reporters like Preston who mainstreamed the marches and portrayed them in a positive light.

Preston certainly embraced the self-serving melodrama of the protesters:

Lacing up new pairs of walking shoes with a flourish, four immigrant students set out on foot from downtown Miami on Friday, starting a four-month walk to Washington to protest what they called the Obama administration’s lack of action on legislation granting legal status to illegal immigrants.

Three of the four protesters, who are current or former students at Miami Dade College, do not have legal-resident status and risk detention by immigration authorities during the 1,500-mile walk.

The protesters must not have felt too much risk, given that all four (!) were identified by photo and name in the story.

The students’ trek showed the resolve and also some limitations of groups supporting an immigration overhaul that would include measures to legalize illegal immigrants. Those groups said this week that they would start a national campaign in January to pressure President Obama to push for the overhaul before midterm elections in November.

But as immigration enforcement has continued at a steady pace during the first year of the Obama administration, many illegal immigrants are clinging to jobs and families in this country and may be afraid to participate in public demonstrations. With unemployment holding at 10 percent, immigrant advocates acknowledge that their campaign could awaken passionate opposition in Congress and around the country.

Preston got to a single opponent of amnesty in her very last paragraph:

“Allowing millions of illegal immigrants to stay and take jobs away from citizens and legal immigrants is like giving a burglar a key to the house,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.

As far as Cuba, a woman I know that became to political (a real red, white, & blue Republican that was so proud of America) told of Cuba’s health care, that in Cuba to get asprin, you would have to go to clinic everday for hours to get one. As in no bottle. She said would open shops for visitors, but they weren’t allowed even then.
I heard a man on FOX news explain why soon we’d be taxed 40% for simple cold remedies, pain relievers, vitamins and over-the counter items. Not sure, but I think he said it would be cheaper to go to doctor and have these simple items prescribe

(1) The U.S. was giving Ms. Chavarria free dialysis 3x/week. In contrast, Mexico is charging her $100/dialysis and rationing it to 2x/week . So, if we decided to finally charge and ration care for illegals, would the New York Times like us then?

(2) Ms. Chavarria has a health savings account with approximately $11,000. So what’s with all the belly-aching? And how about a “gracias”?

(3) If Ms. Chavarria gets a kidney transplant, she’s going to need a lifetime of care, testing and drugs. How is she going to pay for it?

(4) Ms. Chavarria took one child with her to Mexico and left behind the other with her husband in the U.S. She is terminally ill; he is not. Why is Ms. Chavarria so reckless with her own children?

(5) And what’s with the “Ms.”? Isn’t she a “Senora”?

Well, she wasn’t actually deported. We taxpayers paid her travel expenses back to her home town — and three month of more “free” dialysis.

But yes, one does wonder what happened to the money they save with two jobs and paying now taxes for ten years?

Also, where is the New York Times’ sympathy for the US citizens who no longer have access to this dialysis clinic because it was swamped by illegal aliens.

Somehow The Times neglected to mention them.

And why should I care at all about a criminal who chooses to break our laws to be here illegally and (apparently) doing nothing to become a citizen (10 years, yes many people can and do become citizens in that amount of time)?

I’m glad that she was deported and only wish that her other half were too.

Then America would not half the healthcare ‘crisis’ that it does.