By Carter Stewart, Chronicles - Media coverage of illegal immigration serves primarily to obfuscate and distract from what should be the most important question: How many illegal aliens live in America, and what do they cost us? Instead, the media manipulates our emotions with fantastic descriptions of children in cages, the terrors of the Darien Gap and Alligator Alcatraz, and the tragedy of the deportation of virtuous “undocumenteds,” who upon further investigation often turn out to be MS-13 gangsters or child molesters.