The Herald reports on the high-powered Hingham couple and their Belgian nanny, locked up for 30 days now.
Jay Fitzgerald: One would think federal officials have better things to do than to jail a nanny:
What next? A nationwide au pair round-up? ... [O]ur immigration policy certainly appears to be in a shambles, with the administration winking at illegal immigrants streaming across the border to the south while cracking down illogically in other areas. ...
Carpundit: We have immigration rules:
Follow the damn things and you can get here, especially if you're a professional. But if you break them, you're just another criminal.
Mats at Internet128 notes it's not like the government just swooped in without warning and arrested her:
... Considering that a judge ordered the nanny to leave the country in June last year, it would be pretty hypocritical for (the government) not to execute the deportation. ...
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What makes her so special?
By Josh
Mon, 02/27/2006 - 10:13am
I'm with CarPundit & Mats - what makes this lady so special, aside from the fact that she's relatively well-to-do and has exceptionally well-to-do benefactors? There are houses of correction all over Massachusetts where immigrants in the same situation languish for months before finally getting sent back to their countries. The only difference is that they were picked up in raids on factories, not on fancy suburban homes.
It's all well and good to decry ICE policies and immigration law generally - lots of non-violent, hardworking immigrants with families and ties to their communities get swept up, throw in jail with actual criminals, and eventually shipped home, and it doesn't help anyone. But making a cause celebre out of this nanny's particular case smacks of favoritism and racism. Then again, if it raises awareness of some of the weird, useless stuff on which ICE spends its resources, perhaps it's for the best.