Erika Hayasaki/Los Angeles Times tries to help sweatshop (er, workers, yeah that's it)

Erika Hayasaki of the Los Angeles Times returns with another slab of pro-illegal immigration propaganda, this time about the raids at Michael Bianco Inc., a company that pretty much everyone agrees treated its employees in a Dickensian fashion. The article is entitled "Mayor criticizes raid for disrupting families", and it's consistent with the "yes, but" thought process described in the last link: "liberals" want to complain about abused illegal aliens, but when you get right down to it they also either don't care or support them working in those conditions.

An example is the town's leader:

New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang called the factory a sweatshop, like "something out of a Dickens novel." He said that though the federal government was right to investigate the conditions and crack down on illegal immigrants, the workers should have been given a chance to take care of their children and put their affairs in order while awaiting legal hearings.

To paraphrase: "terrible, terrible conditions. So, how soon can you get back to work?"

And, outdoing herself, Hayasaki starts the article thusly:

Before heading off to jobs stitching safety vests for U.S. soldiers, the mothers kissed their babies goodbye, leaving them at nurseries or with sitters.

Now, seriously. Is this in any way a news report? If you cornered them, wouldn't the LAT's editors be forced to admit that this article might as well be an ad for Illegal Immigration, Inc.?

Please write readers.rep *at* latimes.com with your thoughts.

Comments

_...the workers should have been given a chance to take care of their children and put their affairs in order while awaiting legal hearings._ Yes, they should have given them a chance to abscond [1]: _So, how many of these people actually show up for their hearings? The INS doesnÂ’t know. One former INS District Director and Border Patrol Chief told us that he thought the percentage of persons arrested outside a port of entry and released without bond who donÂ’t show up for their hearing was 90%._

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[1] www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/111301levin.htm

Instead of sending them to Arizona or Texas we should have put them up in Massachusetts. I think there would be plenty of room in Hyannis at The Kennedy Compound. Ted would be happy to accomodate them. Maybe he would let them stay there indefinitely!!! Sounds like a plan

Does anyone else find it offensive that the most influential person in immigration policy over the last 4 decades lives in a freaking compound? Teddy boy needs a long overdue dose of reality. Next time he's in Southern California, instead of hobnobbing with a pedophile protector, how about an extended dream vacation in 'The Town the Law Forgot', beautiful downtown Cudahy, CA? Any drug war hawk should go with him and personally witness the corruption and lawlessness their synergistic immigration and drug policy positions foster. City Manager Perez could give them a guided tour of unofficial city headquarters, The Potrero Club--kind of like Teddy's old haunt Au Bar except with framed pictures of famous Mexican drug traffickers. Maybe you & your guest will even be there at the right time to spot a celebrity gangster in the flesh and get an autograph to bring home as a souvenir.

I wonder how generous Ted would be feeling if a bill was passed that forced him to sell one of his yachts to help subsidize tuition for illegals at public colleges in MA? I suppose he might go for it, as long as they created some sort of scholarship program with his name on it, so everyone could remember how great and benevolent he is.

Hi, amanda. It is his reality. Ted would rise to the top in any gang or mafia setting. Its all in his family training, history and upbringing. The new godfather from MA. would do well in any crime setting, congress simply being the safest and most profitable headquarters for him to work from.

"Does anyone else find it offensive that the most influential person in immigration policy over the last 4 decades lives in a freaking compound?" Right, Amanda. For a great look-see as to how our "representatives" see us citizens who pay their salaries and benefits, see below. http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/back1703.html