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.

Temporary · Fri, 03/09/2007 - 19:13 · · Importance: 1