THE DAILY BLADE: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again In Chicago
Remember how long it took Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff to get around to deporting illegal alien Elvira Arellano, who had spent a year living at the
Everyone knows where Flor Crisostomo lives, even the federal immigration officials who have ordered her deported to
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have arrested illegal immigrants by the hundreds in raids at factories, restaurants, malls, farms and meat packing plants, but they have handled cases involving churches delicately.
“Our agency takes enforcement actions when we deem it appropriate," said Julie Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security for ICE. "I am personally not aware of an instance when ICE has gone into a church. That being said, if there was a particular, extremely egregious, ax murderer or something else, that's not to say we would not enforce the law at that time.”
Image-conscious federal immigration officials have long observed an “unwritten rule” to avoid churches, playgrounds and schools – which critics think is asinine. Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration executive director Dave Gorak tells AP: “These are people who deliberately violated the law. We can't even enforce the laws without being criticized as Gestapo.”
Oh, How Times Have Changed
Children from low-income homes are entitled to federally subsidized meals year-round. Yet the free or reduced-price meals reach fewer than one in five eligible children nationwide during the summer break. …
Recent initiatives in
The Eiskants of Silver Spring have been regulars at
"It's sticker shock at the grocery store for everybody," said Kelley Eiskant, mother of three boys. "Knowing we can come here and have a free meal, it's been a highlight of our summer."
One morning late last month, children ran around in the air-conditioned halls, some clutching federally subsidized plums. "We usually hang out on the playground, play dodge ball," said Daniel Eiskant, 11. "I like the food and the chocolate milk."
How expensive or difficult is it to slap three slices of bologna between two sliced of bread with a schmear of mustard, stir a couple of tablespoons of chocolate powder into a glass of low fat milk and open a jar of peaches? Sheesh! The Stiletto thinks it’s baloney that Eiskant cannot get it together to feed her kids a meal as crappy as the one the school is giving them for free.
But before the nanny state began assuming parental responsibilities, neither kids nor parents would dream of freeloading off taxpayers. Thomas Sowell tells a story from his childhood that provides quite a contrast:
I received a letter recently from a man who grew up in my old neighborhood back in
It happened so fast that my schoolmate had already taken a bite from the school lunch when he suddenly realized that he had been given charity - and he wouldn't swallow the food. Instead he went to the toilet and spat it out. [Emphasis, The Stiletto’s.]
By now his brown bag lunch had been thrown out, so he just went hungry that day. He went on to become a very successful psychiatrist.
It was this young man’s pride and determination that propelled him to success. Not a free school lunch.
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