"I probably should read it again, but honestly as emotional as [Anne Frank's diary] was to read it as a child, I think it would be many times more so now that I have children of my own. I cannot imagine being in such a situation and not being able to protect my children. My girls love to read biographies, but neither has read it yet. I will have to do something about that."

Then I'm sure you're just all broken up at the prospect of INS officials kicking in the front door of a barrio apartment in East LA and carrying away a young girl's father, aren't you Lorie?

link -

They are the hidden side of the government's stepped-up efforts to track down and deport illegal immigrants: Toddlers stranded at day care centers or handed over to ill-equipped relatives. Siblings suddenly left in charge of younger brothers and sisters.

When illegal-immigrant parents are swept up in raids on homes and workplaces, the children are sometimes left behind -- a complication that underscores the difficulty in enforcing immigration laws against people who have put down roots and begun raising families in the U.S.

Three million American-born children have at least one parent who is an illegal immigrant; one in 10 American families has mixed immigration status, meaning at least one member is an immigrant here illegally, according to the Pew Center for Hispanic Research and the office of U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano. Children born in the U.S. are automatically American citizens and are not subject to deportation.

This past week in Massachusetts, most of the 361 workers picked up in a raid at a New Bedford leather-goods factory that made vests and backpacks for the U.S. military were women with children, setting off what Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick called a "humanitarian crisis."

Community activists scrambled to locate the children, offer infant-care tips to fathers unfamiliar with warming formula and changing diapers, and gather donations of baby supplies. One baby who was breast-feeding had to be hospitalized for dehydration because her mother remained in detention, authorities said.

Child-care arrangements had to be made for at least 35 youngsters.

Officials of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division released at least 60 of the workers who were sole caregivers to children, but more than 200 were sent to detention centers in Texas and New Mexico.

"What is going to happen to the children? These children are American-born," said Helena Marques, executive director of the Immigrant Assistance Center in New Bedford. "There are hundreds of children out there without their moms, in tremendous need. These babies have become the victims of a problem that legislators can't seem to fix."

One mother was located in Texas after her 7-year-old child called a state hot line set up to help reunite the families, authorities said. The Massachusetts governor said the woman would be returned to Massachusetts.

Hmm, so we should excuse criminals if they have kids, Lee?
-=Mike

Lee, that's some jump from Anne Frank's diary to an immigration raid story from East LA.

Off topic much? Or did I miss something in history 101 that taught Anne Frank was an illegal immigrant? Or was born in East LA?

BTW, when will you correct/edit your post at Blue?

I sure would hate to see you unmasked as a blatant thief.

Really! Honest!

Well, not so much.

Stupid me!!!

After watching/reading Lees antics for so long I should have known something was as fishy as Rosie's under garments.

Your link is three months old Lee, so you're not only making a sad attempt to divert the thread in the direction you desire but you do so with a long dead story.

Wait, the Frank family was in Amsterdam illegally, and the Nazis were the rightful law in the Netherlands lee? Damn, please disseminate this new information you have for us! Idiot.

I can't believe lee has the gall to accuse Paul and Jay of being trolls, his is the epitome of a troll post. Actually, its lee, yes I can believe it, his hypocrisy knows no bounds.

ne was a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt (I was shocked by the fact that she married her cousin!)

Ha! I've long suspected that all those East Coast blueblood types are inbred enough to make a Kentucky hillbilly blush.

Hey Lorie! I was up last night watching Red Eye with Greg Gutfield. It was a hoot! Then of course, as soon as the show was over the breaking news came on of the attempted bombing in London.

Ugh, I find that red eye show to be just awful. Unwatchable.

Mike: "Hmm, so we should excuse criminals if they have kids, Lee?"

No, but we should mitigate the damage done to children as we prosecute the bad guys, Mike.

SLotCar Marc, amateur troll sleuth: "but you do so with a long dead story."

And the circumstances and tactics have changed? No, the racists in America have succeeded in insuring there will be much more door-kicking going forward, now that Bush's immigration reform is dead.

Sorry, I meant to use this link to Steve's post instead.

Label law enforcement proponents racists...check

Call it Bush's immigration reform, ignoring Reid et. al's roll...check.

compare immigration and customs enforcement to nazis...check

Link once again to another pathetic wizblue post in hopes to get SOME attention, anyone? Pleasae e-mail me, someone? CHECK

You're on a troll lee, keep on it!

It is truly pathetic how the only way you can hope to get anyone but larkin and hamilton to read blue is by trolling Wizbang and putting your links in comments, as if that is some kind of evidence for whatever ridiculous point you are trying to make, backing it up with more of your own ridiculous points!

"Call it Bush's immigration reform, ignoring Reid et. al's roll...check"

That's role - not roll, bacon-breath. and it is Bush's reform. He initiated this effort ten months ago in his August 5, 2006 weekly radio addresses. It's a Bush initiative.

US Senate kills Bush immigration reform bill

For Bush, once again, the focus turns to what's left in his final ...

Senate kills Bush's immigration hopes.

But don't let reality break that soft, warm cocoon of self-deluding bullshit you nutcakes wrap yourselves in each morning, SnoutMan, oink on!

Did I say he didn't initiate it lee? No, I didn't, I simply said what we all knew disingenuous liberals like yourself would do, blame the whole thing on Bush and act like the democrats who fought tooth and nail for this had nothing to do with it. Big surprise. Yoo have a problem with bacon lee? Should have known you were a vegitarian. Nice insults by the way, I'll see you on the playground at recess and we'll have a thumb war over it.

Pardon me, vegetarian and you. Just to take away lee's apparent only comeback.

Lee:

SLotCar Marc, amateur troll sleuth

Maybe you should take your own advise Lee. ("Moderating the Voices of Hate>")

It's been over 8 hours since you were notified your post was in violation of Fair Use policy and by cut & pasting an entire Time mag article you have stolen content the post still hasn't been corrected.

Still a thief after all these hours.

Lee is right.
The govt should be mindful of the impact on children when enforcing the law.

Wow. I thought all the comments would be on Bob's attempts to verify the AP massacre story, but no, Lee decided that saying Anne Frank's diary was an emotional read was more controversial. Good comparison there, by the way. It is just so the same thing to talk about a little girl seeing a door kicked in and her dad hauled off by INS and to talk about a family hiding behind the walls of an apartment during WWWII to keep from being hauled off to concentration camps where they would be robbed, stripped, starved, tortured and gassed to death.

I could answer by saying those on the left have compassion enough for the children of those here illegally (I have compassion for those children, too, by the way), but no compassion for the people of Iraq who were being tortured in rape rooms and having body parts chopped off and being thrown off buildings for daring to disagree with Saddam Hussein, no compassion for babies who were closer to birth than my daughter who was born five weeks premature that are killed by having their brains vacuumed out of their skulls, so little compassion for the people who have lost family members to crimes committed by illegal immigrants like the woman who lives near me who lost her son and husband to a drunk driver who hit them and fled the scene leaving them to burn to death in his truck rather than be arrested for being drunk and here illegally. Gee, I could go on like this all day. Maybe I should turn this into a blog post. Any other suggestions to add to my list?

It's been over 8 hours since you were notified your post was in violation of Fair Use policy and by cut & pasting an entire Time mag article you have stolen content the post still hasn't been corrected.

Why would Lee care about placing the owner of this site in potential legal or financial risk?

It's not like Lee's paying the bills or anything.
-=Mike

MikeSC:

It's not like Lee's paying the bills or anything.

Or have an honest bone in his body.

"Any other suggestions to add to my list?"

I'd like to hear your views on this bit of bad news. I know you've been busy, but if you've got time that would be great.