The New York Times offers the editorial "Immigration Riddle" (link), a plea to keep illegal alien day laborers in a Long Island community during the economic downturn rather than taking actions to cause them to return to their home countries. The town of Huntington Station (together with Hagedorn Foundation and the Long Island Community Foundation), has been paying for a day laborer center operated by the Family Service League since around 2001. See " Tempers Rise Over Immigrants" by Elissa Gootman from that year, where they admit that "most are also illegal aliens" (link).

Now, per the NYT, there isn't much work available. Rather than giving in to calls to shut the center down, the NYT wants the center to keep providing their usual fare including "food, warm clothing and English lessons."

In other words, rather than reducing the competition that U.S. citizens face for what little work is available by encouraging illegal aliens to leave, the NYT wants the city to underwrite a permanent labor pool of illegal workers. The sleazy support for illegal activity practically drips from the NYT's pages, putting them once again in the position of fully supporting illegal immigration.

Note that the NYT implicitly admits that they're discussing illegal aliens with the "shadows" bit below:

(Town supervisor Frank Petrone) deserves credit for resisting - so far - the simple solution, which is to pull the plug and to chase the laborers into the shadows. That would defy common sense and the Constitution. The town should commit itself to keep some services going, and thus keep homelessness, vagrancy, sickness and blight at bay until the good times return.

Most of them wouldn't be chased into the shadows; they'd move to another town. Eventually, many of them would return to their home countries. If the NYT wanted a non-crooked solution, they could encourage some sort of program that would help the illegal aliens self-deport. Perhaps they could even call on their friends at the Mexican consulate to repatriate their own citizens. Instead:

And until then, the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, could also step in, with funds and leadership, to show the rest of Long Island how a community helps all its members, in good times and bad.

The only "help" the NYT is interested in is their own pocketbooks or those of their friends, or of assisting the Democratic Party with obtaining new voters. The only sustainable help would be discouraging illegal immigration rather than doing as the NYT wants and underwriting it.