CBS Finds Sympathetic College Student to Use to Promote Obama’s Push for ‘Dream Act’

Pedro Ramirez knows his “future depends on” President Barack Obama’s success in passing “immigration reform,” specifically the “Dream Act,” CBS’s John Blackstone asserted in a Tuesday night story which corroborated the need for Obama’s quest by holding up Ramirez as an innocent victim.

“He is student body president at California State University at Fresno where he’ll graduate this month following years of accomplishment,” Blackstone heralded, “until his parents admitted to him they’ve been living here illegally since he was three years old. Last year he joined other young undocumented immigrants pushing for passage of the Dream Act. It would award legal residency to children brought to America before they were 16 as long as they graduate from high school and go on to college or the military.”

Linking Ramirez’s plight to Obama’s policy solution, Blackstone asserted: “On the Texas border today, the President called for those who want immigration reform to help push an entrenched Congress.”

CBS News political analyst John Dickerson soon helpfully pointed out: “The most specific thing the President can talk about at the moment is how much tougher he’s been on illegal immigrants than in previous administrations.”

Blackstone concluded: “Meanwhile, in the next few weeks some 65,000 students who came here illegally as children will graduate from high school, but for now they’ll face a life in the shadows in America.”

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Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.