Freedom Folks

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Citizens to NC Associated Press. Come in AP.

The average North Carolina resident probably assumes that local, state and federal governments are better coordinated to fight terrorism today than they were before the Sept. 11 attacks four years ago. But the case of Gilberto Cruz Hernandez -- illegal Mexican immigrant accused in a series of rapes -- suggests otherwise. On his third try at illegal immigration, the 24-year-old Hernandez hit the jackpot in the Piedmont Triad, settling with unnerving ease into the mundane fabric of everyday life. He landed a job at a Greensboro printing company and earned $44,000 a year.

Read the entire story here. Americans for Legal Immigration is also tracking which NC newspapers do and do not cover this story here. As of the time of this post, only the Greensboro News and Record is shown to covered it.

It sure sounds like news to me. So why isn't it being covered in North Carolina? Perhaps because it pertains to the two words that burn the MSM like holy water on a demon: ILLEGAL ALIEN.