Do Not Be Deceived

To the editor:

Tyler O’Neil reported in the Daily Signal, 7/16/2026, “according to a state watchdog”, there is a nonprofit based in Los Angeles that receives millions in government funding (your tax dollars at work) accused of establishing an immigration-to-elections pipeline across three entities.” The name of the organization is CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.

O’Neil quotes from CHIRLA’s website, “the Immigrant Political Power Project “targets new citizens, Latinos, and English learners to build a voter base from scratch, with enough power to sway state politics.” I visited the website to attempt to understand the organization’s mission. I did not find any references to how or why an immigrant should seek documentation and become a citizen of the U.S; only references to “the national fight of comprehensive immigration reform.”

That same night, 7/16/2026, President Trump attempted to address the nation with information on America’s “broken election infrastructure” but the major broadcasting networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS refused to broadcast the speech. CBS aired part of his speech but prefaced it with commentary and interrupted the speech several times with their “expert analysis”. The final take away for me was the mainstream media (as Rush Limbaugh used to refer to them) had made up their “analysis” before President Trump even began speaking.

Obviously, these major news networks are not neutral on the topic of the 2020 elections and did not want the public to hear the results of investigations that provided evidence of manipulations that occurred. The mantra of the news pundits since the speech has been “Trump claimed…without evidence there has been tampering in the elections.” They persist with false narratives of “fair elections” and “honest reporting” despite evidence to the contrary.

The President’s address to the nation is news, whether you agree or disagree with his topic or what he says. The commentators mislead their listeners in their criticisms.

Speaking of misleading, the Record published a letter to the Editor the next day titled “Misleading Readers.” The author of this letter claimed “the law is settled” regarding “birthright citizenship. It is not! He referenced the 1898 case U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark claiming the decision of the court in that case “confirmed that the 14th amendment applies to children born on U.S. soil, regardless of their parent’s status.” It did not. The decision of the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Wong KimArk held “that a child of legal resident aliens is entitled to birthright citizenship.” (Edward Erler, Imprimis, March/April 2026.) Mr. Erler, who has a M.A. and PhD.in government and has published numerous articles on constitutional topics states, “the constitutional grounds for the majority opinion in Wong Kim Ark are tendentious (questionable), and that decision could be overturned. Repeal of the current policy of birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens would not require a constitutional amendment. Congress used its legislative powers under the 14th amendment to determine who was within the jurisdiction of the U.S. in 1923 regarding the Indians and it could make a similar determination today. Children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens are not subject to American jurisdiction.”

The remainder of the ‘misleading’ letter relies on “subjective data” and the authors “personal preference resources” rather than “legal reality.”

I was recently reminded, do not be deceived.