A "credible" immigration policy at last? What about credible media coverage?

Fifteen years after she testified as the chair of President Clinton's immigration reform commission, Barbara Jordan's recommendations for a credible immigration policy will finally get the serious consideration they deserve. 

Briefly, what Jordan was looking for was: 

* Mandatory workplace verification to take away the jobs magnet

* Elimination of chain migration

* Elimination of the visa lottery

* Reduction of the high immigration that brings so much injustice to the most vulnerable members of our national community.

This long-overdue and very promising scenario was made possible by the Nov. 2 election that produced a dramatic shift away from a Congress controlled by pandering politicians bent on rewarding millions of illegal aliens who have thumbed their noses at the rule of law and the sovereignty of the American people.

According to Roy Beck, founder and president of NumbersUSA:

I'm not sure there has been a Congress since 1924 -- and certainly not in the last 50 years -- that had a membership more interested in reductions in overall illegal and legal immigration than will be the one that was elected yesterday.

Further fueling the excitment and anticipation over this "new era" of dealing with immigration was the U.S. Senate's Dec. 18 defeat of the DREAM Act amnesty that among other things contained absolutely no provisions for deterring future illegal immigration.

What remains to be seen is whether the new Congress also will usher in a new era of meda coverage, i.e., will journalists begin reporting on this critical public policy issue from the perspective of our immigration laws finally being allowed to fullfil their primary mission: protecting American workers.  Or will they continue to crank out their boilerplate sob stories that almost always begin with tales of woe and claims of persecution from illegal aliens and their arrogant advocates?