New Haven CT - Part of the Problem

New Haven Connecticut Mayor John DeStefano Jr. wants to make life a little easier for the estimated 12,500 illegal aliens living in the city. He wants the city to give them ID cards. The New Haven Resister covered the mayor press conference.

“Let’s be real about why this is happening first of all,” said the mayor, who is also a gubernatorial candidate, during a bilingual press conference in City Hall. “The failure of the federal government to recognize and embrace thousands and thousands of hard-working residents, is subjecting those people and their families to abuse and exploitation,” he said.

This may be one of the worst plans imaginable, except it's not really a plan.

“All of these people are hard-working, decent members of our society on which we depend everyday,” DeStefano said. “We can do better by them and we have to make up some of it as we go along.”(emphasis mine)

Another part of the plan that DeStafano is making up as he goes along is urging local banks to allow illegal immigrants to open accounts with the required social security numbers.

In a nutshell, DeStefano wants to provide better access to city services in order to curry favor with the legal hispanic population in his expected run for governor. The truly sad twist to the story is that it works.

Latino politicians reached later Monday applauded the new bilingual forms, but said far more needs to be done, including hiring more bilingual city workers.

“I commend the mayor on finally realizing this is a legitimate issue and needs to be addressed, but this is only a first step,” said Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez, D-5, who represents a neighborhood in the Hill.

I've found myself asking this question of politicians from California to the White House - “What part of illegal don't you understand?”

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 05:49 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment