Immigration Chronicles
Fox News debuts website to court Latinos
By Jenalia Moreno on October 15, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Everybody wants to target the growing Latino market — even the network that's not a favorite of many Hispanics.
Fox News has recently launched the Web site, Fox News Latino. Articles are in English and Spanish.
Some might find the move a bit ironic. Fox is known for having personalities who are unapologetically tough on illegal immigration. It's also the only news network that refers to illegal immigrants as just "illegals."
A headline on a recent post on the new site was:
Hispanics Key to House Districts.
Another article was about how local cops don't want to perform immigration duties and one line read:
But the program has raised anxieties among the U.S. immigrant community, which — in the xenophobic climate that prevails in the country – is already showing reluctance to cooperate with the police to report crimes.
Do you think we'll see a Spanish-language version of Glenn Beck on the new Fox Latino site?
Glenn Beck once famously claimed that there are three reasons that an illegal immigrant "comes across the border in the middle of the night": "One, they're terrorists; two, they're escaping the law; or three, they're hungry. They can't make a living in their own dirtbag country."
Jenalia Moreno