I don't know who is worse, the bloviating politicians who use idiotic descriptions of illegal immigrants "living in the shadows" or the fawning press that reports things like that with a straight face. Kathryn Jean Lopez points out a picture carried in the New York Times showing a group of illegal immigrants brought to the Capitol building by advocates of the failed immigration "reform" bill. There they are, sitting in the Capitol lounging on benches. Five of them sitting in the "shadows".
I think that is one of the reasons there was so much grassroots opposition to the Senate bill. Everyone but the Senators in Washington are about tripping over all the illegals. There are so many of them that they are casting a shadow at this point, not hiding in them. But if Washington will not first get serious about enforcing existing immigration law, then the public will have to find elected representatives that will. If the argument is true that we desperately need a huge number of workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do" then our nation should be able to handle a large influx of legal immigrants. We do not need a tidal wave of people flooding over the borders without any control.
