Quoted from the article:
"While we applaud honest law enforcement work to rid our neighborhoods of smugglers, drug dealers and other dangerous elements, we are concerned about the timing of an ICE operation that seems to be as much designed for media consumption as anything else," Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said in a statement. "We are worried ICE Director Morton's intense media campaign to publicize this action will only contribute to a climate of fear that is already sending shockwaves across the state and country."
Like there's a
wrong and a
right time to bust somebody for human smuggling?? Gee, maybe ICE should publicly announce in the media that they'll be taking these scumbags down two weeks from Thursday at 9:30 in the morning?
Hey Pablo - how's about
you try being part of the
solution instead of being part of the
problem? Be afraid. Very, very afraid!! The easy days of illegals standing on the corner of every Home Depot in this state looking for work is over. And if that's what it takes to save one life, to keep one person from crossing (and dying in) the desert, or being held for ransom in a drop house while their family in Mexico scrambles to put together and wire money, then it's
damned well worth it! I hope it sends the message loud and clear that there is no easy-to-get work here; stay home with your wives and families. Don't take the risk; you'll get caught.
Keep b1tchin' Pablo, I'm sure ICE would
love to pay your organization a visit! Why the media would even publish two words of what this guy thinks is just plain stupid -- day labor has been a huge part of the problem all along!
