The Palm Beach Post goes off the deep end

The last immigration editorial from the PBP wasn't that horrible, even if it was wrong.

They've gotten quite a bit worse with "Jupiter trying to solve problem feds created":


Jupiter has a problem with migrant workers, most of them illegal, who live in the town, crowd older neighborhoods and gather daily at a pickup point on Center Street to take odd jobs in the community or low-wage landscaping and construction work. Administrators working for four years have proposed a series of solutions, including a labor center that would move the gathering point from a riverfront neighborhood to a more fitting commercial center.

Rather than force the migrants out - to become someone else's problem - Jupiter proposes a reasonable solution with the labor center. But the issue is becoming snarled in the national debate over illegal migrant workers. The town has the attention of the extreme anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform. And U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Jupiter, has weighed in with an unhelpful condemnation of the labor center. Rep. Foley seems more interested in political expediency than helping Jupiter deal with the local fallout of the federal government's failed policies. If Jupiter doesn't build a labor center, what should it do? Rep. Foley can't say...

I'm not familiar with the specifics of this case, but calling FAIR an "extreme anti-immigration group" is an outright lie. Let's all send an email to their managing editor: john_bartosek@pbpost.com

Immigration2005a · Tue, 01/04/2005 - 10:07 · · Importance: 1

Comments

They wouldn't apply the same reasoning to racism, for example, would they? What are the chances that they would say, racism isn't going to just go away, so what is a municipality to do, but set up institutions to accomodate it legally?

Posted by: John S Bolton at Jan 4, 2005 11:21 PM


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