A June 17 CNSNews.com article by Terry Jeffrey asserts: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) vowed Monday that the Senate would consider a ‘comprehensive’ immigration reform bill that would include giving amnesty to illegal aliens—an item he referred to as ‘bringing the 11 million people out of the shadows.'”
Reid never said “amnesty” — that’s Jeffrey’s imagining. And nowhere does Jeffrey explain his opinion — which is exactly what this is, despite being presented as a “news” story — that “bringing the 11 million people out of the shadows” is the exact same thing as “amnesty.” Heck, Jeffrey doesn’t even bother to define what he means by “amnesty.”
In other words, just mark this down as a sloppy smear job by a right-wing activist throwing around scare words he refuses to define in order to rally his fellow activists.