It’s Only a Problem Now

Hugo Diaz’s guilty plea Tuesday for “harboring an illegal alien” will ultimately send the Mexican national back home once his sentence is completed. Insiders in law enforcement find the uproar surrounding the case amusing, however. As the building boom hit the once sleepy suburbs in Columbia County, the complexion of the construction workers changed from black and white to brown, and what was going on certainly wasn’t a secret. All was well, as a matter of fact, until the economy tanked. Only then, when the laborers who had built all those new subdivisions became vulnerable, did their existence become a problem — certainly not when they were making profits for the builders. Only when the business dried up did all the righteous indignation appear. Enforce the laws, fine. But don’t pull your head out of the sand only to stick it up your butt.You Might Also Like: