DISQUS

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Immigrant Alliance Seeks Apology Why would the Immigrant Alliance seek an Apology from News 7?  Your illegal aliens are at fault and shouldn't be driving cars without a licence or insurance!  What is going on in their heads?  If they don't have a licence or insurance we have what you call PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!!!!  That is what people that don't have a drivers license or insurance should be using.  What happens if they kill someone in an accident? Do they just go to court and admit they did it and get right back behind the wheel without having to pay for it?  First off they have no business being in this country.  If they weren't here we wouldn't be having this conversation would we?  I hope they build a few more jails and throw their butts into them.  "Then ship them right back to Mexico"!

bmenezes · 2 years ago

Here's why they want a followup, genius The 7 News "investigation" provided no evidence whatsoever that the four Hispanic men it got on camera were in fact illegal immigrants. Kovaleski didn't even ask them if they were, and his self-described, so-called "methodology" did not include the simple question "What is your immigration status?"

The "investigation" also provided no factual evidence to back up its breathless claim that unlicensed, uninsured illegal immigrants were  a major cause of accidents on Denver or Colorado roads. Kovaleski didn't even cite the readily available statistical evidence that shows overall how many uninsured, unlicensed drivers are involved in accidents in Colorado; believe it or not, given that 95 percent of the state's population is NOT made up of illegal immigrants, such statistics might have been useful.

Read this for a look at how 7 News has conveyed not only misinformation, but also perpetuated a baseless smear on Hispanics.

http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200702090002

Bill Menezes

Editorial Director


Colorado Media Matters

Erin Rosa · 2 years ago

Thanks Bill I hadn't seen that, and it provides much more significant information.

DB · 2 years ago

Here's why they want a followup, genius So what's your point genius?  The fact was that one of the men got into his car with a Mexican drivers licenses and stated he had no Colorado Drivers license.  Hmmm, I wonder where this person was from, and I assume that if he didn't have a valid Colorado drivers license, and insurance, as any U.S. born  American Citizen living in Colorado would,  or should have, even without asking the question are you a U.S. Citizen, or are you here illegally, my answer is that News 7 would have been questioned for asking the question.  Is it possible for them to win one way or the other?  Perhaps they should run a special investigation on how many accidents are caused in Colorado by unlicensed, uninsured, illegal aliens.  Then we will have hard numbers and there will be no question as to who's who in an accident. 

bmenezes · 2 years ago

Here's why they want a followup, genius Ummm, ask the state Department of Transportation and the Denver Police and read the government statistics that are readily available: There are a lot -- repeat, a lot -- of U.S. citizens driving around the state without valid Colorado licenses and insurance. The stats show a huge number of the unlicensed drivers involved in accidents are people who have had their licenses suspended or revoked; based on your own "assumption," those people couldn't have been illegals, apparently, or they wouldn't have had licenses in the first place.

That's the fatal flaw of the 7 News report. They claimed the story is about illegal immigrants but apparently never bothered to find out if the people they interviewed actually ARE illegal immigrants. Perhaps they "assumed" the way you are, that someone who is Hispanic, doesn't have a U.S. license or insurance, and speaks with an accent is illegal. That's the textbook definition of a "bigoted" assumption.

If 7 News is right, they need to provide facts -- not "assumptions" -- that prove their claim. They did not and, to date, have not despite numerous requests from community members for them to do so. Any guesses why?

Bill M.

oldbogus · 2 years ago

Unlicensed people living in CO are, by definition, "illegal immigrants" obviously living off our taxes. Damned Californians and Texans. Book 'em all.