Channeling their inner ACLU, the New York Times offers "Immigrants, Criminalized" (nytimes.com/2009/11/27/opinion/27fri2.html) in which they come out against the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program that checks whether those arrested can be deported. While the NYT pays lip service to those who don't want criminal aliens roving the streets, they appear to be living in a fantasy world where those criminals can be deported without something like Secure Communities. They offer no alternative, and no doubt any alternative they offered would be so full of loopholes that it would be useless.
They also, as they've done in the past, give the game away:
Laws must be enforced, but doing it this way hurts the innocent, creating a short line from Hispanic to immigrant to illegal to criminal. Having brown skin, speaking Spanish, seeming nervous in the presence of flashing police lights — none of those things say anything about whether you are here illegally or not, are deportable or not. But any one of them can be enough to get you pulled over in jurisdictions across the country.
If they have a problem with unjust racial profiling, they should go after that individually. Instead, they're using it at least in part to shield the fact that they at heart want little or no immigration enforcement.
Fri, 11/27/2009 - 14:46 · Importance: 4
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