Originally Posted by Jelly Bean Lover

My idea was not to convince right-wingers of anything. It was simply to try to reclaim public space for our point of view. Right now it is all crazy right-wing stuff. If we post like mad on anything related to DREAM or CIR, then it makes it clear not everybody favors the "deport everyone" plan.

Moreover, even conservatives are not as crazy when it comes to DREAM as when it comes to CIR, and I was asking to focus on DREAM first. Follow the link above, though, and you will find a lot of misinformation about DREAMers and what they want. If we don't challenge these lies, then people will just accept them. This is part of the reason why the politicians won't do anything, because everybody accepts lies about immigration and there is thus a large phalanx of people that are against doing anything except deporting.

In the end, what I was proposing is that people here do about as much as they are already doing on DAP. The only difference is that instead of posting here to a sympathetic audience, they post elsewhere too (a few comments a day) and challenge people that oppose us. If we have time to post responses here, why not on the comment section of immigration articles where we can challenge lies and reach a broader public? Why is that more wasted effort than what the majority of people already do on DAP?