Luis Gutierrez — No Turning Back

The strategy is designed to project the most sympathetic image possible — illegal day laborers hanging outside the 7-Eleven are a harder sell — and to show that the issue is more complicated than illegal vs. legal, more gut-wrenching than statistical arguments over labor supply. Let there be citizens with cancer in front of the cameras, children separated from their parents. The more tragic or appalling the story, the better. Gutierrez is aiming directly for the tear ducts of the American people.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/07/AR2009050704170.htmlBy David Montgomery — Washington Post