Storm-warning Iowa newspaper sides with lawbreakers
Iowa's largest newspaper is the Gannett-owned Des Moines Register. Notoriously opposed to President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement, it churns article after editorial after guest essay characterizing illegal immigrants as nobles unjustly battered.
For their part, federal law enforcement officers are derided as brutish oppressors who've invaded innocent milieus to tear piteous loved ones asunder.
Raids conducted by ICE agents are likened to natural disasters against whose ravages the imperiled must coordinate safeguards.
That 'dangerous weather approaching' tone found representation in a May 25 piece on the Mount Pleasant, Iowa raid: "With immigration raids on the rise, Iowans prepare for the day 'ICE comes to town.'"
The article opened with a dramatic description more appropriate to heroic medical personnel who'd rushed life-saving technology to a tragedy-stricken scene:
Immigration attorneys and social service agencies were on the ground within hours after U.S. Immigration and Customs officers raided the Precast Midwest Concrete plant here on May 9 and arrested 32 workers.
"Workplace raids have increased dramatically in 2018," the Des Moines Register writer hyperventilated just paragraphs later. "Advocates in Iowa are starting to prepare for them the same way emergency responders ready for natural disasters."
"Workplace raids have increased dramatically in 2018," the Des Moines Register writer hyperventilated just paragraphs later. "Advocates in Iowa are starting to prepare for them the same way emergency responders ready for natural disasters."
A reminder: Under discussion was not a tornado, flood, or mysterious succession of sinkholes, but American officers upholding duly-passed citizenship laws.
The Des Moines Register's approach to this is symptomatic of a larger article of faith common to many anti-Trump elements.They reject the rule of law that ensures order and portrays Constitutional intent.
All countries have legal and moral rights to maintain borders and standards for citizenship. Sentimental tableaus depicting individuals whose particular cases aren't served by given statutes do not make those laws illegitimate or inhumane, and certainly not deserving of eradication.
The guaranteed rights of legal citizens should be of greater importance to media types than the opportunistic pursuits of non-citizens whose presence on U.S. soil demonstrates indifference to our laws.
All countries have legal and moral rights to maintain borders and standards for citizenship. Sentimental tableaus depicting individuals whose particular cases aren't served by given statutes do not make those laws illegitimate or inhumane, and certainly not deserving of eradication.
The guaranteed rights of legal citizens should be of greater importance to media types than the opportunistic pursuits of non-citizens whose presence on U.S. soil demonstrates indifference to our laws.
posted by DC Larson at
May 30, 2018
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