Open Borders Boston Globe Columnists Decry the Illegal Immigration Raid in New Bedford
OK, where to begin?
…so much to cover, so little time…
FEDERAL IMMIGRATION raids can devastate local communities, endangering children and crippling businesses. As city and state officials scramble to respond, federal policy makers should be reconsidering workplace raids.
Please explain how enforcing our immigration laws "devastates local communities?"
ditto, with how it "cripples" businesses.
Why halt the raids? Does the Globe have any idea of the tremendous deterrent effect only a few raids has as far as disincentives for others from Mexico and Central America who are thinking of crossing the border?
Next, in the “why the Boston Globe’s circulation is plummeting” category comes the sanctimonious and righteous indignation from columnist Eileen McNamara, who wanted to know why federal immigration officials, whom she accused of using “storm trooper tactics”, did not provide those illegals arrested with fee legal assistance prior to their detainment (one wonders, for what purpose?).
After decades of wanton neglect in terms of policing the borders, the federal government initiates a few raids in the workplace and to those like McNamara, Massachusetts has witnessed its very own Kristallnacht.
Tell me again how that result makes this country safer and stronger? It doesn't, unless some link between these workers and terrorists comes to light.
Thus, short of weeding out terrorists, are we to have no say in who we want to let into the country? Vennochi’s position seems to be: come on, come all. Indeed, this is the position advocated by the executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition who, in a Boston Globe editorial, wrote that, “Immigration laws today are unjust not only for those yearning to be free, but also for everyone struggling for a better future for their children… How can we look into the eyes of a young mother who has fled the repressive government and economic perils of Guatemala to stitch safety vests for our troops and tell her to leave?”
Is it any wonder why, we have experienced a tidal wave of illegal immigration when advocates of open borders such as McNamara want to shower those who are here illegally with a panoply of social welfare benefits including free legal counsel? To what end, for what purpose?
As demonstrated by the prevailing sentiment expressed in the Globe, amnesty and open borders is a distinction without a difference. Liberals notwithstanding, anyone with only the most rudimentary understanding of human nature realizes that rewarding those who have broken the law, far from stemming illegal immigration will only insure that it continues unabated.
Beacon Street Journal
Thursday, March 15, 2007
By John Kinsellagh