Thought Vacuum at the New York Times

The NYT offers the editorial "Immigration Vacuum":

Immigration is a national problem that too many local governments have mistakenly tried to fix.

The problem is mostly concerns illegal immigration. Obviously, there are federal, state, and local laws, and localities are not able to, for instance, suspend federal laws relating to political corruption. See also, for just one example, "'Sanctuary' practice in Houston draws fire". Cities and states can't just pass the buck.

Take Manassas, Va., where the City Council has finally suspended what was clearly an unconstitutional housing ordinance aimed at immigrants, mainly Hispanics. The Council wanted to make it illegal to have too many extra aunts, uncles and cousins in a single residence, although the word was out that Anglo cousins did not have to worry.

Just because it would have affected illegal aliens doesn't mean it was "aimed" at them. If it wasn't being enforced against white people, then there are certainly remedies. Did anyone try to seek remedy? Therefore, can't we assume that the NYT is simply lying? And, many people understand the word "Anglo" as a slur. And, it's certainly something I didn't expect to see coming from the editorial board of the New York Times.

The NYT continue with misrepresentations of two more, using the word "anti-immigrant" along the way. Then, they make the misleading statement that the "immigration system in this country is broken".

Then, the compare HR4437 to "the Know-Nothing anti-Irish movement", and:

But the worst part of the bill makes it a felony to shield or offer support to undocumented immigrants, even unknowingly. So what about the church group that provides shelter, no questions asked, or the woman who drives a neighbor to the store?

For the answer, see "Will HR 4437 cause humanitarian groups to be prosecuted for giving emergency aid to illegal aliens?"

There is simply nothing in the language of this section (one strongly advocated by border-state U.S. attorneys and which actually deals with alien smuggling and related offenses) that says anything that could be reasonably interpreted as an attempt to prosecute someone who gives a meal to an illegal alien or provides emergency health care.

The editorial is, for the most part, just more pro-illegal immigration propaganda from our out-of-touch elites. However, with the "Anglo" crack I think we can definitively say that the New York Times is just on the other side.

Comments

Actually, I think what the NYT was getting at with the crack about "Anglo cousins" was that Virginia is in the south, right next door to West Virginia, and EVERYBODY knows that people from there are a bunch of gun-toting 8th grade dropouts who have sex with (and marry) their first cousins.

The term anglo is not pejorative, according to an
entry at urbandictionary.com submitted by one "dchamil".

There is a contradiction in pretending that our legal tradition prevents us from having enforceable minimum standards, which may fall disproportionately on some foreign or illegal alien group. If our legal tradition doesn't allow that, it is not ours, but alien; and as alien as communism or the UN. The NYT is contradictorily pretending that they are within our legal tradition or loyal to it, when they are acting as agents of alien subvertors of our minimum standards. Why would they want to be seen as enthusiastic for the degradation of humanity, crying over foreign criminals not being allowed to put dozens of unrelated people in a small house? America is important because we have standards, not because we allow third world criminals to chip away at them. Minimum standards as in public health, can and do, fall most disproportionately on minorities, immigrants or illegals, and properly so. If the rules for TB control come down on foreigners 50 times more often than on citizens, that's how it is, and no one may rightly complain of unfair discrimination.
If everyone living without plumbing in a county is a foreigner, and the county goes forth in righteousness to put down the unclean in their midst, sweeping them out, it is still an equal proceeding, if it applies to all.