“They give new powers to local police untrained in immigration law.”
Police work is called law enforcement for a reason. The police are pretty good at dealing with criminal activity. These illegal immigrants in their first act as they begin their new lives in the US by breaking US law. Why should we encourage people willing to do that?
There are literally thousands of people lining up to get into the US legally. Why should they bother to be suckers? What is the incentive for these law-abiding people to immigrate the right and legal way? Pandering to illegal immigrants lessens respect for the laws of our country, cheapens the value of citizenship and is destructive to our values as Americans.
I am in favor of more legal immigration and would like to see it easier for immigrants to become legal American citizens. But I have no sympathy for illegal immigrants who believe they are entitled to the benefits that should only be provided to American citizens.
My disgust with the NY Times continues to increase unabated.
Very well said.
The one silver lining to the piece is that even though the NYT calls the laws racist, even putting the accusation in the subtitle, it has very little sting. I wonder if the libs realize how much jeopardy their beloved race card is in these days. Hey NYT, it’s not racist to enforce the law.
I will also say that the new immigration law is very popular here in AL. I think it’s somewhere in the 60 to 70% range, with even half of Democrats supporting it. The newspapers here are liberal, but they function more as comic relief than anything else (they’re what the NYT would be in a sane universe). They are of course against the new laws, but they are roundly ignored. The only threat to the new law would be some kind of federal court action, which is precisely what the NYT is agitating for in this piece.