Quote of the Day (National People’s Radio):

On Feb. 24, when armed immigration agents raided Yamato Engine Specialists, a small company that rebuilds car engines in Bellingham, Wash., 28 workers were led away in handcuffs. They were illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, and they faced quick deportation. It was the first big immigration raid under President Obama, and it came as a shock to many in the Hispanic community.

On Spanish radio, shock quickly turned to anger. “Let’s give the Obama administration one month to stop all this,” warns one caller, “otherwise, the Democratic Party and Obama will suffer the consequences!”

But the White House seemed almost as surprised by the raid as the workers. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told Congress she hadn’t known about the raid ahead of time, and she ordered a review of it.

Now, one month later, 27 of the 28 workers have been released. One of them — Luis Ramos — says he can’t get over how nice the immigration agents have become.

“They treat us wonderfully,” Ramos says. “They even say, ‘do you want a soda from the machine?’”

The government is offering them temporary work permits, and immigration agents are even giving the Mexicans free rides to Seattle to file the paperwork. Now the anger at Obama is coming from the other side of the immigration debate.

This may be as simple as a mistake from the name tag factory.  Which can happen if the person using the machine can’t read English.

Instead of receiving the Homeland Security Secretary badge, Janet Napilatino received the Amnesty Czar tag.  These things will happen.

I’m still confused though.  If you really want to make things right then let’s not half-step the Amnesty issue.  For every employer determined to be hiring illegals, you should force them to pay back wages and healthcare directly to the illegals (in addition to Social Security to the government) for as long as they haven’t been offering it regardless of when you find out in addition to a penalty for violating income taxes.

It will at least cover our new Homeland Security illegal rideshare program.

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