Doing the Jobs the Feds won't.

Not to be outdone by the L.A. Times, the New York Times gets in on the sympathy-mongering with respect to illegal immigrant deportations. The NYT’s angle on this story, though, is legislation being passed at the state level that gives law enforcement folks at the state and local levels greater latitude in enforcing immigration laws while the Feds drag their feet or simply refuse to enforce these laws.

Ever since we started this blog, we’ve been banging on illegal immigration pretty hard so we don’t want to sound entirely unsympathetic to the families and particularly the children who had no say in this, especially with regard to the actions of their parents. Any time, you allow an illegal socio-economic phenomenon to grow and develop unchecked, any attempts to slow, alter or even stop its progress will indeed appear reactionary and even draconian.

We get it – we understand it, that is why the charges of “racism” and “nativism” never bother us. It bothers us far more that a government for the people (it’s citizens) and by the people (again, it’s citizens) that has been at least tacitly complicit in this phenomena seems more concerned with the welfare of those who aren’t supposed to be here than with those who are.

It appears, though, that some levels of government have received the message. Congress may still be a little slow on the uptake (and who is that 1 person in 5 who actually thinks they’re doing a good job?) but they’ll get the message, eventually. They’ll get it like a 2x4 upside the head.