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ecuring the border would be the most popular element of any immigration reform deal, according to a new poll.

Eight-in-ten Americans support hiked-up border security and 72 percent support more Visas for high-skilled immigrants, the ABC News/Washington Postpoll on Wednesday found. Fifty-seven percent support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a number in line with other recent polling on the subject.

 

 

 

A whopping 93 percent of Republicans support securing the border, but only 61 percent of Hispanics feel the same. The large gap illustrates one of the difficulties Republicans face as they try to craft a bipartisan deal on immigration. While their base is likely to demand tough border measures, many Hispanics on the border feel security is already tight enough.

 

Bipartisan groups in both the Senate and the House are expected to reveal immigration reform plans soon.

The poll of 1,014 adults was conducted from March 27 to March 30. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

 

 

 

It's pretty obvious to me, most people want to secure the border and offer a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

 

 

But check the way Politico words this:

 

 

 

A whopping 93 percent of Republicans support securing the border, but only 61 percent of Hispanics feel the same. The large gap illustrates one of the difficulties Republicans face as they try to craft a bipartisan deal on immigration.

 

 

"But only 61 percent of Hispanics feel the same"

 

But only????

 

Large gap???

 

That is an overwhelming majority of Hispanics that support securing the border, and they say "but only"

 

Douche media

 

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The Associated Press Revises Another Politically Charged Term

 

Stylebook entry for 'Islamist' revised two days after 'illegal immigrant' dropped

 

Following on the heels of the Tuesday decision by The Associated Press to discontinue use of the term "illegal immigrant," the news agency on Thursday revised its stylebook entry for another politically charged term.

The term "Islamist," the AP clarified in a Thursday afternoon alert to online stylebook subscribers, should not be used as "a synonym for Islamic fighters, militants, extremists or radicals."

"Islamist" is frequently used as a label for conservative Islamic political movements, particularly Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the group's Palestinian offshoot. It generally carries a negative connotation

 

 

http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/04/04/the-associated-press-revises-islamist-another-politically-charged-term

 

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Of course, that thesis is nonsense: The North Korean propaganda apparatus is utterly untethered from the real world, and it’s going to serve up bellicose, hypernationalistic, and anti-U.S. rhetoric irrespective of whether a few new sanctions are imposed. The turgid article wouldn’t have been notable if it had been produced by some misinformed blogger; shoddy analysis of North Korea is a staple of English-language opinion journalism. But this story was published by none other than the Associated Press, one of the world’s most respected news organizations, which supplies news to thousands of newspapers and radio stations worldwide, and reported in its patented voice-of-God, “just the facts, ma’am” style.

 

The Associated Press is one of the most storied names in news. Based in New York, it’s a nonprofit cooperative co-owned by some 1,400 U.S. newspapers. It employs roughly 3,700 people in 300 locations across the globe, who file frequent, fact-based stories and occasional analysis. Founded in 1846, the AP claims that half of the world’s population sees one of its stories on any given day. The winner of 50 Pulitzers (one as recently as 2012), the AP states that it’s “deeply committed to fair, objective and independent journalism.”

The news agency has an interesting relationship with North Korea. In January 2012, it opened a bureau in Pyongyang, becoming the first “full-time international news organization with a full-time presence [in North Korea],” as the AP itself reported. The North Korean desk is supervised by Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and chief Asia photographer David Guttenfelder.

The AP’s Pyongyang operations are unlike those at any of its other bureaus—unsurprising, given that North Korea ranks 178th out of 179 countries for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders (Eritrea is 179th, if you were wondering). For one, neither Lee nor Guttenfelder, the titular heads of the office, lives in North Korea. Instead, they only travel there when the regime permits it. What’s more, the bureau’s full-time staff comprises two North Korean “journalists,” one of whom reportedly got his start working at KCNA, the infamous North Korean propaganda service and official voice of the North Korean government and the Korean Workers’ party. (Sample KCNA lede from a story dated March 28, 2013: “Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA)—The army and people of the DPRK are trembling with towering anger at the U.S. and the south Korean military hooligans who dare insult the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and go desperate in their moves for confrontation and war.”) Andrei Lankov, a well-known North Korea expert (and author of the forthcoming The Real North Korea), pegs the odds at 99 percent that “they come from the secret police or intelligence services,” according to an article in Foreign Policy.

 

 

 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dateline-pyongyang_716287.html

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