The Immigration Deal

New York Times | May. 20, 2007 (Editorial)

The immigration deal announced in the Senate last week poses an excruciating choice. It is a good plan wedded to a repugnant one. Its architects seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise. They tried to bridge the chasm between brittle hard-liners who want the country to stop absorbing so many outsiders, and those who want to give immigrants -- illegal ones, too -- a fair and realistic ... Full Story »

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by Jerry Carroll - Oct. 1, 2008

Let's see, people who want a secure border and a clamp down on illegal immigration are -- as seen through the Times lenses -- "brittle hard-liners" and braying "Know-Nothings." This is most of us, folks, if you believe the polls. Now we must ask ourselves what this editorial says about the Times, described by its recent ombudsman as "a liberal newspaper." It's odd to see this organization working hand-in-glove with the Corporate America masters who want cheap labor to keep wages depressed for working class America.