Long ago I stopped trying to find honest arguments in NYT?s editorials on immigration. ?They seem unable to spot the possibility that open borders have helped pauperize our most vulnerable workers ?unskilled American natives and legal immigrants. The working poor almost never make it into the calculations.
Unimpressed by the fact that America takes in more immigrants legally than the rest of the world combined, the NYT treats every effort to stem the flow of illegal immigrants as a stain on the national honor.
The NYT editorials do their argument no service by including such honking dishonest statements as the one in today?s example, which defines California?s Trust Act as:
a recently passed state bill that prevents local police departments from turning their jails into immigration holding cells for noncriminals or minor offenders whose sentences are up or who should otherwise be out on bail.
Entering this country illegally happens to be a crime. ?If the NYT wants to argue that the tamale vendor who inspired the Trust Act was held too long or that entering the country illegally for work is an offense of a minor sort, I will agree. But it?s simply not true that those who do have committed no crime.
Tags: California, immigration, labor, media
Source: http://www.fromaharrop.com/?p=1594
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