Illegal Immigration: Examples of the Sky Not Falling

Respecting my very strict policy of not posting on weekends... Here's a charming editorial from the Post that supports a local decision to build a day-laborer site (to remove mayhem from a 7-11):

It's all vaguely reminiscent of Chicken Little, who got so bent out of shape when that acorn fell on her head. Instead of determining what the real problem was, she figured the sky must be falling, and off she ran to tell everyone the dreadful news. The proposed day-laborer center is not the problem; it is a response to a condition created by an unrealistic federal policy that offers visas to no more than 10,000 unskilled workers a year when the jobs available number many times that. Stepped-up enforcement isn't necessarily the answer: Immigration should not be under the purview of local police, and federal authorities have come to the reasonable conclusion that raiding parking lots where immigrants gather to seek gainful employment need not be a priority.

Really concerned about illegal immigration? Don't blame the Herndon Town Council. Lobby the government or complain to the employers whose legal responsibility it is to check workers' documents. And then take a moment to glance up at the sky. It isn't falling.

As we pass momentarily over the idea that law enforcement can't, you know, enforce the law, a quick perusal of events include:

Ranchers 75 miles from Tucson say bad border policies have resulted in a daily invasion of drugs, death, pollution and violence, Tuscon Weekly

Illegals Dying at Record Rates in Arizona Desert, USA Today

MS-13 Member Found Guilty in Fairfax Machete Attack, Washington Post

Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S.  , Washington Times

Burke Knifing Blamed on [MS-13] Gangs,  Washington Post

And so on. Maybe the sky isn't falling on your heads, guys.

Oh, and about that Mexican mercernaries story:

A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50,000 bounties for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to protect loads of cocaine and marijuana being brought into America by Mexican smugglers, authorities said.
    The deserters, known as the "Zetas," trained in the United States as an elite force of anti-drug commandos, but have since signed on as mercenaries for Mexican narcotics traffickers and have recruited an army of followers, many of whom are believed to be operating in Texas, Arizona, California and Florida....

The immigration problem is bigger than Herndon. So by all means let's prevent a few million local police from policing.

Many links via Michelle Malkin's Immigration Blog.