Leave it to the New York Times to portray illegal immigrants as the biggest victims of the wildfires. Try out this line from Glare of Fires Pulls Migrants From Shadows [emphasis added]:
There were Mercedeses and Jaguars pulling out, people evacuating, and the migrants were still working,” said Enrique Morones, who takes food and blankets to the immigrants’ camps. “It’s outrageous.”
Bonus points for "Mercedeses and Jaguars." Just wouldn't have been the same if people were fleeing in Fords.
Other excerpts:
Immigrants from south of the border, many illegal, provide the backbone of menial labor in San Diego, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms, sweeping walks and mowing lawns. The wildfires, one of the biggest disasters to strike the county, exposed their often-invisible existence in ways that were sometimes deadly.
“I was pretty scared. We had to leave in the middle of the night, and we went to the church,” said Juan Santiago, a immigrant worker in the Rancho Peñasquitos neighborhood, just south of the hard-hit Rancho Bernardo area.
It's fine for illegals and Dem politicians to go to church. The Times only gets nervous when Christian conservatives do.
Wayne A. Cornelius, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies border questions, said that if the past was a guide there would be more friction over the fires and their effects on illegal immigrants. “San Diego likes its illegal migrants as invisible as possible,” Mr. Cornelius said. “So whenever something happens that calls attention to their presence, it is fodder for the local anti-immigration forces.”
Ah, the liberal academic [but I'm repeating myself] puts in an appearance to falsely paint those that want to protect our borders as being "anti-immigration."
Representative Brian P. Bilbray, a Republican who represents areas along the border, did get the opportunity to be quoted, and he didn't waste it.
“People are dying because we can’t control our border,” Mr. Bilbray said. “That’s what they should be screaming about. Anyone who knows the land and the illegal activity in that rugged terrain knows there was no way we would avoid deaths in this.”
Precisely.
Note: Over at Captain's Quarters Ed Morrissey flames the fake FEMA press conference. Michelle Malkin is also underwhelmed by FEMA's performance and passes along its new logo.
