The anti-immigrant furor has gone too far
Alamance sheriff crosses line of decency tracking down worker.

Posted: Monday, Aug. 04, 2008


A couple of weeks ago, Marxavi Angel Martinez, 23, was a hard-working, well-liked worker at the Alamance County Library – a former cheerleader and honor student at the local high school. Now she and her family are jailed, facing prison time and deportation (along with separation from her toddler son, a U.S. citizen.)

Her case shows how anti-immigrant furor in North Carolina has crossed the line of decency and become a mean-spirited desire to root out anybody who cannot show they came here with permission.

Her story, too, shows why ginned-up rhetoric about “amnesty for criminalsâ€