DGS49
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Hundreds taken into custody at Pittsburgh ICE office, an emerging regional deportation hub
Zuleymi Nava Angel has not seen her husband since he left for work in the early hours of Dec. 5. That same morning, she drove her daughter to school, then...
www.post-gazette.com
I have read scores of articles over the past several months about ICE activities around the country. Basically, they round up large numbers of people and start the process of sending them back to wherever they came from.
President Trump was elected, above all other reasons, to close our southern border and get rid of the millions - literally MILLIONS - of people who came here in violation of our current (Trump didn't make them) immigration laws. It seems pretty simple, right?
But these stories focus on how inconvenient these arrests are, and how they cause trouble for the ones arrested and their families, some of whom are - thanks to a bullshit interpretation of the 14th Amendment - U.S. citizens.
Why should I care? It's a simple matter: You broke our laws; that illegal act is being reversed. It is not even "punishment." Punishment would be sending them to prison, but this is just un-doing the lawbreaking that got them into the country.
As they outline the hardships imposed on those arrested and their respective posse's, NONE of them addresses the core question of whether those arrested are truly in the country illegally. The implication seems to be that ICE is arresting people promiscuously and carelessly, and they may be arresting people who are either citizens or "green card" holders. And by implication, they are just arresting people who don't "look like us," thus it is all "racism." But the claim that they arrested the wrong people is fairly rare, at least in my readings.
If you write a story about masses of people being arrested and detained by ICE, is there not an obligation to address this essential question: Did they arrest/detain the right people? Were innocents arrested along with the illegals?
I made a comment to this effect on FB last week. An article had been published in the local Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, claiming that hundreds had been arrested by ICE, and describing how hard it was on their families. I wrote that the article should have addressed the essential question of whether the people arrested were indeed in the country illegally.
My son, a Journalist by profession, verbally attacked me, saying that my comment was an insult to the entire Journalistic profession, and against him in person (since I use my own name when posting on FB). According to him, my point about the legitimacy of the arrests being essential to the story was nonsense.
Eh? What am I missing? To me it seems essential to the story.
