Raiding Suburban America
I am quite the busy-body. Friday began my week-long vacation, yet here I am, still researching away. It's difficult to break this issue into parts, but I've managed to come up with a short analysis. Immigration reform is divided into individual, corporate, and government responses. Individual can then be separated into economic (employment, wage competition) and social (residency, language, education) brackets. Corporate is a general category that addresses the employment or contracting of either document or illegal immigrants in every section of the business world. Government is self-explanatory: how legislation is interpreted or being reformed by governing officials.
I was hoping to highlight some activity concerning the government and the immigration issue when I found a couple of reviews that caught my attention. First, MaryD's article about New England Raids at a government-contracted factory drove home the pathos with a double-punch directed at the national government's deportation tactics. What's all the fuss over sending a few hundred illegal aliens (individuals undocumented by U.S. government) home? It seems as though the same raid (on New Bedford leather) took some heat off of Massachuset's Governor Patrick's phoney ideas for documenting illegal immigrants. Second, Arizona experienced a similar raid at a Sierra Vista business less than a week after the raid in MA. Sun Drywall and Stucco Inc.'s president and 8 illegals found to be working for the company were taken into custody. The company was charged with evading Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and repeatedly hiring illegal aliens with the intention of exceeding the law.
Now that the government is ready to reinforce legislation, is it too late? The media and social relief groups are shedding negative light on the ICE's MA raid, proclaiming it to be a "humanitarian crisis" and exploiting accounts of minor children calling a hotline to find parents who were detained in Friday's raid. Massachusetts House GOP leader Brad Jones, R-North Reading, in defense of the government's action, said, "When you break the law, you not only put yourself at risk, but you put your family at risk. Just because you have children doesn’t mean you should be held to a different standard."
As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Jones pinned the issue to a tee. One of the greatest obstacles to immigration reform is agreeing upon how to handle the individual offenders (illegal aliens holding U.S. jobs) without inhumanely separating parents from their American-born children. Whew, what a mess.
I was hoping to highlight some activity concerning the government and the immigration issue when I found a couple of reviews that caught my attention. First, MaryD's article about New England Raids at a government-contracted factory drove home the pathos with a double-punch directed at the national government's deportation tactics. What's all the fuss over sending a few hundred illegal aliens (individuals undocumented by U.S. government) home? It seems as though the same raid (on New Bedford leather) took some heat off of Massachuset's Governor Patrick's phoney ideas for documenting illegal immigrants. Second, Arizona experienced a similar raid at a Sierra Vista business less than a week after the raid in MA. Sun Drywall and Stucco Inc.'s president and 8 illegals found to be working for the company were taken into custody. The company was charged with evading Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and repeatedly hiring illegal aliens with the intention of exceeding the law.
Now that the government is ready to reinforce legislation, is it too late? The media and social relief groups are shedding negative light on the ICE's MA raid, proclaiming it to be a "humanitarian crisis" and exploiting accounts of minor children calling a hotline to find parents who were detained in Friday's raid. Massachusetts House GOP leader Brad Jones, R-North Reading, in defense of the government's action, said, "When you break the law, you not only put yourself at risk, but you put your family at risk. Just because you have children doesn’t mean you should be held to a different standard."
As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Jones pinned the issue to a tee. One of the greatest obstacles to immigration reform is agreeing upon how to handle the individual offenders (illegal aliens holding U.S. jobs) without inhumanely separating parents from their American-born children. Whew, what a mess.
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