From an opinion piece in the L.A. Daily News:
Yet again Latino immigrants are being scapegoated.
This time the attacks are taking the form of immigrant raids in greater Los Angeles... [the sweeps do] nothing to address the U.S. policies that lead to immigration...
Believe me, it doesn't get better. How the Daily News could agree to print such an inaccurate and inflammatory piece is (almost) beyond me.
They aren't "attacks," they're "illegal aliens" not "immigrants," the law is being enforced and no one is being "scapegoated," and the I guess "greater Los Angeles" depends on how much you want to stretch the truth. They also blame U.S. policies for massive (illegal) immigration. It'd be nice if they distributed the blame to include the corrupt governments who use the U.S. as a safety valve.
There is one grain of truth in their piece. They complain that on the one hand "we" invite illegal aliens here to work, but on the other hand we deport them. We need to focus on workplace enforcement and fining and jailing those who hire illegal aliens. Of course there will still be complaints from the usual suspects, but at least we won't have a schizophrenic enforcement policy.
Immigration_dls · Thu, 06/24/2004 - 13:26 · · Importance: 1
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Comments
This is part of an official attitude that holds disadvantaged minorities morally unaccountable. Then, if they do get blamed for something, it is called scapegoating (or blaming the victim). The official position is that disadvantaged minorities, including even illegal aliens, are by nature blameless. Yet this is the same as calling them subhuman, if they are not subject to moral judgement.
Posted by: John S Bolton at Jun 30, 2004 9:03 PM