Pamela Constable has an interesting article in today’s Post, concerning a Manassas legal aid clinic for immigrants, both legal and illegal:
The clinic highlighted the intimate, sometimes desperate dilemmas faced by thousands of immigrant families in Manassas and other area communities, whose households often include a confusing mix of legal U.S. residents or citizens, illegal immigrants and others with temporary permits or pending immigration cases.
The article allows not only the acknowledgment that the presence of illegals can cause difficulties for a community (overcrowding in homes and schools, businesses failing “because the competition hires cheaper illegal workers”), and that it is possible to be concerned about the impact of illegals without being opposed to the influx of legal Latino immigrants, but also that some immigration problems cannot be just wished away. All in all, a rather remarkable story for the Post.