Jessie Mangaliman of Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News offers "Close-knit S.J. immigrant family lives in constant dread of breakup", concerning a mixed-status family with most of the members being here legally but the eldest daughter being here illegally. He does include a quote from Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies in the middle pointing to one solution: start enforcing the laws in order to avoid having even more mixed-status families in the future. That key point seems to be lost on those who promulgate such propaganda: they apparently want to complain about that which they helped bring about.
And, the Camarota section is preceded by the sucker-punch intro. In order to make it even more dramatic and just "kick it up a notch", I've put it in poesy form:
On Sofia Alvarado's 46th birthday, she stood beaming
at the stove
in her
South San Jose home
mashing and stirring a clay pot of pinto beans
The rare afternoon was a mother's coveted gift: all five of her adult children
and
four grandchildren relaxing
at home together at the same time
Her eldest daughter kicks
a ball
out front
with her young daughter
A son watches over a grandchild while another
son sleeps off his graveyard shift
I say we adopt the entire population of Latin America. So heartwarming. NOT!
No...instead let's send them all to Hyannisport and The Kennedy Compound.. He has plenty of room!!!!