{"id":28024,"date":"2016-11-20T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T22:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28024"},"modified":"2016-11-20T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T22:35:18","slug":"just-saying-trumps-first-amendment-subscribe-to-newspapers-migrant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28024","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying: Trump’s First Amendment, Subscribe & Migrant Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Remember this 1988 case \u2014 \u00a0Times Picayune Publishing Corp. v. Lee.<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 <\/strong>once Trump starts throwing out certain news outlets out of White House press conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"newspapers\"Trump is going to start putting restrictions on media coverage while at the White House. Quite possibly, he’ll go where no other U.S. president has gone before by banning certain news outlets from his press conferences. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trump imposed many restrictions on reporters during his campaign.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Prompted\u00a0<\/strong>by his Fox’s Trump cheerleader and pal, Sean Hannity, who suggested that Trump could set up White House policies<\/strong> to<\/a> deny credentials to media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post that have been critical of Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sounds like a page lifted from the playbook of the Putin School of Journalism? \u00a0Well, it isn’t. <\/span><\/p>\n

It happened in Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1988, Sheriff Harry Lee sued the Times Picayune and one of its columnists for defamation. Also the newspaper endorsed Lee’s opponent. The sheriff said the news coverage of him had been “inaccurate and systematically biased against him.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee whined and prohibited the Times-Picayune from attending scheduled news conferences. \u00a0Also Lee wrote a policy that prohibited officials from releasing any information to the paper. \u00a0The paper had to make a written request, and only after Lee decided to release the information.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"courthouse\"A federal appeals court said Lee’s policies were unconstitutional. \u00a0The court ruled that Lee’s policies “materially and adversely impair the newspaper’s ability to gather the news in a timely, comprehensive and informative manner.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, the policies “curtail the flow of information to the public about such vital subjects as crime, law enforcement and the conduct of government and official policies.”<\/span><\/p>\n

But this case didn’t go all the way up to the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his campaign, Trump’s staff roughed up a reporter, threw another one out of a press event and insulted journalists in general while ranting unfavorable news coverage. Several reporters said it had become dangerous covering a Trump political rally because they felt hostile and angry Trump supporters were targeting them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a very troubling sign that says he doesn\u2019t actually understand or value the role of the press in American democracy,\u201d said Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan, who has sharply criticized Trump\u2019s media blacklist in her column.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A Trump-Republican Supreme Court could also start eroding the First Amendment rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"NewPeople should start subscribing to the New York Times and the Washington Post and other newspapers that have done excellent work during the election. \u00a0Newspapers throughout the nation have been making cuts in newsrooms because of budget slashes. \u00a0Increases in circulation could stave off many newsroom cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Trump signs a piece of paper or looks over his shoulder, investigative reporters should be there asking tough questions and writing articles about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Want to make a difference: Subscribe!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Migrant Workers Should Leave Southern Agricultural States<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"ImmigrantsWho will pick up the fruits and vegetables if millions of illegal immigrants are deported? \u00a0The crops will stay in the fields and rot. <\/span><\/p>\n

Couldn’t happen, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

It did in Georgia, Alabama and Arizona in 2011. \u00a0This was the headline in Forbes magazine in 2012:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Georgia’s Immigration Law Backfires<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The article written by Benjamin Powell and published in 2012 stated, in part, the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

“To forgo a repeat of last year, when labor shortages triggered an estimated $140 million in agricultural losses<\/strong>, as crops rotted in the fields, officials in Georgia are now dispatching prisoners to the state\u2019s farms to help harvest fruit and vegetables.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The labor shortages, which also have affected the hotel and restaurant industries, are a consequence of Georgia\u2019s immigration enforcement law, HB 87, which was passed last year.\u00a0 As State Rep. Matt Ramsey, one of the bill\u2019s authors, said at the time, \u201cOur goal is \u2026 to eliminate incentives for illegal aliens to cross into our state.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Now he and others are learning: Be careful what you wish for, because you may get more than you bargained for.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Migrant workers should start packing up and leaving southern states that supported Trump and bought into his anti-immigrant racist rants.<\/span><\/p>\n

I lived at the El Paso-Juarez border for a good chunk of my life. El Paso has nearly 700,000 residents, 70 percent are Hispanics. \u00a0The city received the All-American City in 2010. It has a very low crime. On the other side of the border, is the city of Juarez that was once named the Murder Capital of the World.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I understand that America’s borders must be secured, and there have to be strong immigration laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

What the U.S. needs is a Guest Worker Program, similar\u00a0to the one that Canada and Mexico signed. \u00a0I wrote a column about the program earlier this year.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Washington Post wrote an article in 2013 about Canada’s Guest Worker Program<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Foreign Visitor Overstays<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are at least 216,000 Canadians and Europeans who are going to be booted out of the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. \u00a0But don’t expect Trump to enforce immigration laws equally.<\/span><\/p>\n

The federal courts are going to be busy with lawsuits citing civil rights violations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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