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11-02-2016, 03:52 PM
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/alexa-moutevelis-coombs/2016/11/02/fresh-boat-lectures-country-was-founded-illegal
By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | November 2, 2016 | 3:22 AM EDT
Fresh Off the Boat just abandoned all pretense of being a fun family comedy to deliver its viewers a stern lecture on illegal immigration.
In Tuesday's episode “Citizen Jessica,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/49656-s03e04-citizen-jessica/?do=getLastComment) Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) fully supports Florida’s Proposition 187, which seeks “to end illegal immigration by putting up a wall of Border Patrol agents on our shore.” But when her husband, Louis (Randall Park), tells her, “This proposition is anti-immigrant…you’re an immigrant.” Jessica responds, “I'm a legal immigrant. I did it the right way. I went through the immigration process. I waited my turn. I didn't jump the line. This is just about fairness.”
Wow, a television program that shows legal immigrant opposition to illegal immigration? You know there’s got to be a catch. So, of course, when Jessica calls INS on anti-Prop 187 protesters she gets rounded up as undocumented, too, because her green card has expired.
A cook from the family’s restaurant named Hector was caught as well and his sob story is used to beat Jessica – and viewers – over the head with a pro-illegal immigration sermon that’s so obnoxiously preachy it sounds like a public service announcement written by La Raza instead of a scene in a lighthearted sitcom.
By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | November 2, 2016 | 3:22 AM EDT
Fresh Off the Boat just abandoned all pretense of being a fun family comedy to deliver its viewers a stern lecture on illegal immigration.
In Tuesday's episode “Citizen Jessica,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/49656-s03e04-citizen-jessica/?do=getLastComment) Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) fully supports Florida’s Proposition 187, which seeks “to end illegal immigration by putting up a wall of Border Patrol agents on our shore.” But when her husband, Louis (Randall Park), tells her, “This proposition is anti-immigrant…you’re an immigrant.” Jessica responds, “I'm a legal immigrant. I did it the right way. I went through the immigration process. I waited my turn. I didn't jump the line. This is just about fairness.”
Wow, a television program that shows legal immigrant opposition to illegal immigration? You know there’s got to be a catch. So, of course, when Jessica calls INS on anti-Prop 187 protesters she gets rounded up as undocumented, too, because her green card has expired.
A cook from the family’s restaurant named Hector was caught as well and his sob story is used to beat Jessica – and viewers – over the head with a pro-illegal immigration sermon that’s so obnoxiously preachy it sounds like a public service announcement written by La Raza instead of a scene in a lighthearted sitcom.