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Media Watch : MSNBC’s First Gut Check Makes My Gut Wretch

11:11 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Internet · Comments Off

10 Jul 2007

bigot.jpgMSNBC is doing a series of reports based on what “American readers” say they are interested in:

In our first Gut Check America vote, thousands of readers around the country rated illegal immigration as the issue of most concern for them. Among them was Gary Rutledge, a Tulsa, Okla., college professor who wrote about being involved in a traffic accident with an apparent illegal immigrant.

What makes someone an “apparent illegal immigrant”, according to the article:

The other driver, a young Hispanic man, did not speak English, did not have a driver’s license or insurance. The officer suspected the man was an illegal immigrant, Rutledge said, but he did not check his immigration status because such inquiries weren’t allowed in misdemeanor cases.

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