March 11, 2007

Sweatshop supporter Ted Kennedy will never support immigration enforcement

Our favorite Senator, Ted Kennedy, offers "Families pay the price for failed system" about the Michael Bianco Inc. raids. As with the "news" report from Maria Sacchetti and Yvonne Abraham of the Boston Globe, it features a sympathetic photo of a "victim" of the raids.

All over New Bedford on Tuesday, hundreds of women and men woke up, kissed their children goodbye and left for another day of work at Michael Bianco Inc. They knew it would be a grueling day because there was no other kind of day in the sweatshop-like conditions of the factory. But they were willing to work hard and without complaint because they believed in the American Dream, in which hard work creates a hope for a better life - if not for them, then for their children.

Note to "liberals": Teddy Kennedy is supporting working in a sweatshop. I bet if I looked hard enough I could find similar articles written about slaves working in the fields or child laborers working in the factories of Dickens-era London.

What happened next was a tragic example of the desperate state of our current immigration policy. Hundreds of armed police and immigration officers raided the factory, creating panic among the workers. They handcuffed unarmed men and women in the same factory where the workers had already known nothing but indignity at the hands of their employer.

...We must enforce our nation's immigration laws. But the raids in New Bedford and elsewhere are merely a stopgap solution that unfairly penalizes vulnerable workers in an already flawed system...

As already pointed out a few times, those who make this sort of argument are full of it. Teddy Kennedy will never support enforcement and will always find some sort of excuse. If "reform" passes, he'll say it wasn't the enforcement he had in mind originally and try to water it down (even further). Or, he'll do what he's doing now: say we shouldn't enforce our laws until the (next) "reform" passes.

Posted to Temporary at March 11, 2007 11:29 AM