Tom Tancredo was right.
We don’t need to round up and deport millions of illegal aliens. Just enforce the law, and they’ll leave, he said. I always thought the “we can’t deport millions of people” argument was a fallacious one anyway, but no matter.
Last month I wrote about Prince William County’s efforts to crack down on illegal “immigration” in its midst. Yesterday, the Washington Post published another one of its notoriously gag-inducing stories about “poor illegal aliens” afraid of the police. I find them quite tedious, so I empathize if you don’t want to read this one. But if you must: “In N.Va., a Latino Community Unravels.”
I’m waiting, in vain I suspect, for the Post to do a sympathetic human interest story on how American citizens and legal aliens in Northern Virginia have been negatively impacted by people sneaking across the border, bringing all kinds of social pathologies with them, getting paid under the table, changing the character of the neighborhood, and on and on.
But no, all the Post seems interested in writing about is how illegal aliens are scared to pick up their kids at the school bus, laid-off restaurant DJs (yeah, you read it right), and empty churches. If I may digress for a moment, don’t illegal aliens who profess Christ see the incongruity between their illegal status and their status as Christians, who are required to obey the law? I mean, the Bible I read does command Christians to obey government authorities. Which Bible are they reading?
(Side note: The Post cares nothing about empty churches per se, it should be noted. Empty mosques, maybe. But the extent of its concern for the Christian faith begins and ends in the context of so-called oppressed minorities.)
Anyway, check out this sob anecdote: a “Latina” restaurant owner, an American citizen, takes out a huge loan and – get this – hires illegal aliens to work in it who she now has to lay off because illegal alien patrons are leaving the area. “‘If things keep going this way, I don’t know how I’m going to survive,’ said Sorto, massaging a sore arm her doctor blames on stress.”
Sickening, isn’t it? The woman should have heavy fines coming out of her ***. Perhaps she does. But all we know from the Post article is how stressed out she is to be losing her restaurant and laying off criminals. Cue the violins.
I don’t feel sorry for anybody – and I don’t care how many mouths he has to feed – who thinks he’s entitled to be here when he cheated his way in. To idiot American business owners who break the law and hire illegal aliens, may your suffering (and stress) increase.
It’s Friday, and it’s early, so I’m willing myself not to throw up. I’ll listen to some music instead.
(Photo credit: Jahi Chikwendiu — The Washington)
