"Mail and Guardian"

Publication: Sun Times

Date: 1/11/08
Cartoonist: Jonathan Shapiro

International

Title of the cartoon:"Mail and Guardian"
What action is taking place in the cartoon?
President Obama is taking people from all nationalities into the United States, but leaving United States citizens drowning behind him. Tone of the cartoon: 
1)  negative framing of undocumented immigrants 
2) negative framing of immigration policies 
What “reality” is constructed/framed about immigration/immigrants?

President Obama is taking care of the whole world, but leaving the United States to suffer. He is being framed in a historical context as "crossing the Delaware" like George Washington. He is bringing in the new, without paying attention to the old. The immigrants, not necessarily portrayed as undocumented workers in this cartoon, are bright and happy waiting for their chance at a new life.