A May 10 CNSNews.com article by Fred Lucas carries the headline “Obama Claims He’s Done All GOP Wanted on Border Security, Now They Must Pass Amnesty.” But as Lucas makes clear, Obama never used the word “amnesty.”
Lucas did mislead about what Obama said, claiming that he wants to “grant legal status to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens.” In fact, Obama has stated that his immigration reform plan making illegal immigrants in the country “register and get right with the law, pay their respective taxes and fines, learn English and submit to background checks before they can get in line to apply for a legal status.”
Lucas also betrayed CNS’ agenda as exhibited by the headline, referencing “plan for comprehensive immigration reform, which proponents generally call a ‘pathway to citizenship’ and critics call ‘amnesty.'” CNS has repeatedly and misleadingly portrayed comprehensive immigration reform as “amnesty,” even as it admits the term is used only by critics.
Lucas previews Obama’s speech in a May 9 article under the false headline “Obama to Tout Amnesty in Speech Near Mexican City That Had More Casualties Than Afghanistan.”
UPDATE: CNS keeps up the falsehood in a May 11 article by Eric Schreiner, which carries the headline “Harry Reid: “‘We Need The People Of America To Rise Up’ in Favor of Amnesty for Illegal Aliens.” At no point does Schreiner report that Reid used the term “amnesty.”