If an Illegal Alien and a legal citizen committed a the same crime at the same time?

Question

who would the media focus on primarily and why?

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Answer 1

We all know the answer to that but simply put regardless of where both person came from they committed the crime which is all that matters, the secondary issue is do we really want a person who does not belong in this country to even have a chance to stay here if they are criminals?

Answer 2

I'm not sure why the media would get involved unless if it was a serious, gotesque crime that the citizen and illegal alien committed.

If it's the same exact crime, committed at the same exact time and place, I'm sure the media would focus on both suspects. The fact that the crime was committed by a citizen or illegal alien makes no difference. What matters is what laws were broken.

In this case, however, the illegal alien would probably suffer more penalties because he or she would most likely serve their time and/or be deported, whereas the citizen would just serve their time.

Answer 3

It can go either way, let me make a case for each:

The illegal alien. The illegal alien already committed a crime getting here, where the legal citizen applied for citizenship and obeyed that particular law. The person with the criminal record is always worse off than the person who is the first time offender.

The legal citizen. The media, since it is controlled by leftists and big industry, will want to keep the pressure off the illegal alien so the businesses can illegally use them as usual, all while appearing to be *so* tolerant. Media as a whole is run by rich people who hate controversy, so it is easier to attack the legal alien or native-born person than the illegal alien.

Answer 4

The media as is today focuses more on what will get more interest. If they committed the exact same crime, the illegal would recieve more attention until alien rights activists would say that the media was portraying the suspect (who they turn to be viewed as the victim) as being misrepresented. Then who knows, it depends on the local political slant.

Answer 5

The media would focus on the illegal immigrant because they want to brainwash the society that legal citizens do not commit crimes..

Answer 6

They would focus on the legal citizen because they try to keep the few crimes that illegal immigrants do out of the news or else everyone would start not liking us and committing hate crimes against us.

Answer 7

I read an article about a Hispanic American citizen raising an interesting defense in her trial for carrying drugs to be sold. She said that since the amount she had was under a certain volume used as a 'cut off' before illegal immigrants would be prosecuted for the same crime (due to paperwork difficulties, immigration coordination issues, identity checks, etc.) it was discrimination for her to have been charged with the crime, just because she was a citizen with a fixed address.

I don't know how it turned out....

Answer 8

Hopefully the illegal and they should.

Using your example - an illegal and a legal both rob a bank. The citizen is guilty of grand theft. The ILLEGAL is also guilty of grand theft but he is ALSO a criminal for being here. The illegal is committing MORE crimes.

Answer 9

Come on you and I already know the answer to that. The media would make the story about the illegal alien bigger then it really is, while no one would know about the citizen that did the same thing. It would be an excuse to bring about the topic of illegal immigrants.

Answer 10

I've seen it both ways. Geraldo said it's not about an illegal, it's about the crime. Bill O'Reilly said it is about an illegal commiting the crime. They had a big fight about it on TV.