Thread: Editorial: The immigration raids

Editorial: The immigration raids

Some observations about the raids last week to scoop up alleged illegal aliens working on dozens of state contracts that the State of Rhode Island has with two janitorial companies:

First, the law says being in America illegally is, well, illegal. To countenance breaking immigration laws makes the country less secure, tends to lower wages (as studies at Harvard and elsewhere have shown) and makes other law enforcement more difficult, in part by encouraging a general disrespect for the law.

If people aroused by the raids don’t like the law, then they should change it. Meanwhile, with Rhode Island’s jobless rate at 7.5 percent, two percentage points above the nation’s, imagine the irritation of many citizens by the raids. And consider the sensitive places, such as courthouses and the attorney general’s office, that these alleged illegals had access to.

Second, hiring illegal aliens is illegal. We await the arrests of those individuals who hired illegals in this case. It has become clear for a long time that federal authorities, because of a mania for “free marketsâ€

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Identity theft in America goes hand and hand with illegal immigration.
As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007—one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access to jobs, credit, and driver’s licenses, many undocumented aliens are using the personal data of real Americans on forged documents. The immigrants’ identity theft has become so pervasive that the need to combat it is “a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration,â€