I saw this apologia for illegal aliens at WaPo yesterday, started to write a post about it, and then stopped because I was so aggravated that a cooling off period was in order. As it turns out, La Shawn Barber has both a cooler head and a better post than the one I would have written. These sorts of apologies remind me of all the rationalizations for stealing movies and music online: “It’s not really stealing, and even if it were, it’s the record companies’ fault for being so greedy! And I’m doing them a favor because I’m promoting the product!”
Shorter hysterical WaPo screed: “Enforcing the law makes illegal aliens go home! And you’re big meanies for doing it!”
LaShawn writes:
Yesterday, the Washington Post published another one of its notoriously gag-inducing stories about “poor illegal aliens” afraid of the police. I find them quite tedious, so I empathize if you don’t want to read this one. But if you must: “In N.Va., a Latino Community Unravels.”
I’m waiting, in vain I suspect, for the Post to do a sympathetic human interest story on how American citizens and legal aliens in Northern Virginia have been negatively impacted by people sneaking across the border, bringing all kinds of social pathologies with them, getting paid under the table, changing the character of the neighborhood, and on and on.
Screw “social” problems– how about the TB problems? Or other diseases?