Who Is Truly The Neediest? Don’t Ask The New York Times!

By Joe Guzzardi

If I were an illegal alien and wanted to wrap a MainStream Media reporter around my little finger, I would say two things:

"I am in the process of getting my green card."

"I plan to take my GED test."

Virtually anyone in the US illegally can make the first statement, misleading though it is. Technically, any alien who sets foot on American soil and makes a residency application can claim that he is on the way to legal status, even though he does not have a snowball’s chance in hell of being approved.

Applying is, after all, a step in the "process".

As for the GED test, that’s an easy sell to reporters, too. The fact that the alien in many cases has had only a couple of years of primary school education and may be illiterate in his own language should be a tip-off to the reporter that a GED is well out of reach, even if taken in Spanish.

From my personal experience teaching a GED preparation course for the Lodi Unified School District, I can confirm that passing the test is a stretch for anyone who does not have either recent schooling or a basic educational foundation.

In fact, my guess is that only about 50 percent of 2007 California high school graduates could pass the GED, which has recently made more difficult.

Recently Honduran alien Yori Barahona made the two preposterous claims—"in the process" and "plans to take the GED test"—to the completely-duped New York Times reporter Alexis Rehrmann.