Florida Sheriff Targets Illegals
I'm pretty sure this is supposed to evoke sympathy:
Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn't been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home.
"We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported," he said. "The companies don't want to hire illegal people. Now they're only hiring those with papers."
But while I'm sorry to see anyone suffer unnecessarily, I have little sympathy for the complaints of someone who came to this country illegally. The United States simply cannot provide for or solve all the world's problems, particularly not by ignoring our existing immigration laws.
The fact that one sheriff in Florida is fed up and trying to do something, particularly in the face of the disgusting and undemocratic maneuverings as the Senate attempts to ramrod an amnesty bill through Congress, despite overwhelming evidence that few in the country support it, is pretty amazing. Even more so is that given the comments above, it's effective, and being reported as such.
Just imagine if the feds actually got in on the enforcement business...