Could you imagine a mainstream press source writing sympathetic articles about massive law-enforcement crackdowns on drug dealers, chop-shops, drunk drivers, or other illegal activity? Then why the sympathetic coverage about these law-breakers?

The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.

One worker caught in Monday's sweep at the Howard Industries transformer plant said fellow workers applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Federal officials said a tip from a union member prompted them to start investigating several years ago.

Not until one gets to the fourth paragraph does one find the actual numbers -- that close to 600 immigration criminals were caught, that 475 were held and another 100 given humanitarian release with ankle-bracelets so that they could care for family members. That is a whole lot better than "victims" of other law enforcement crackdowns on crime get.

My only regret in all this -- that no executives or managers of this company were arrested. We need more of that to discourage their illegal activity, too.

And the most absurd quote in the press coverage of the raid? Try this on for size, from the son of the pastor of many of the detainees.

“It was like a horror story. They got handled like they were criminals.”

Heaven forbid that we treat lawbreakers like lawbreakers!

When will the press take the side of the US and its immigration laws, rather than the foreigners (and American employers) who break those laws?

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