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James Pinkerton has an interesting article in today's Houston Chronicle. He reports on three different groups involved in the battle over illegal entry into the U.S. - the people that cross the border illegally, the groups that enable and encourage them, and finally, a group that wants to stop the practice but runs people off with their tactics.

The first group, the illegal aliens themselves, have enough chutzpah to organize as a group.

That's why Mexican immigrant ILLEGAL Jacinto Vasquez has joined the Houston Network of Day Laborers, formed over the weekend by approximately 200 day laborers. Their goal is to improve working conditions, set a minimum wage they'll agree to work for and fight wage theft. ''I have a good opinion of the group," said Vasquez, an undocumented ILLEGAL worker who moved here BROKE IN from Mexico in 1999. ''If this brings us support, it would be good ... for all of us." The issue of day laborers in Houston and around the country has been a flashpoint in the debate over illegal immigration, largely because most of the workers are undocumented ILLEGAL.

I helped the Chron by correcting their bias. How did we get to the point that we allow people that have clearly, unmistakably broken our laws to organize as a group? Bizarre.

The second group, the enablers, continue to deny the truth.

However, Jimenez said some day laborers can legally work. ''Not all don't have documents," she said. ''Some are U.S. citizens; some are legal residents; and some are Central Americans with temporary work permits. What you have to understand is they are day workers who fulfill a function in the economy."

I suppose that 1 or 2 out of a thousand enter legally. The vast majority do not and the only thing that Ms. Jimenez is accomplishing in her efforts is a continuation of these types of stories:

Arizona Department of Public Safety officials think there were 32 illegal immigrants packed into a passenger van that rolled on Interstate 10 Monday morning. DPS spokesman Quentin Mehr said that at about 5 a.m. a large passenger van carrying illegal entrants ran off the road around mile post 292, about 11 miles west of Benson. One female of Guatemala was pronounced dead at that scene while 30 others were transported to area hospitals for treatment. One other subject, not hurt in the rollover, was detained at the scene by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

People are dying because of your enabling, Ms. Jimenez. News reports like this come out daily. You might want to focus your efforts on communicating the dangers to people trying to come here illegally.

And the last group he mentions is another group that is well meaning but the message they use turns ordinary citizens away.

''That's not the American dream, to have people come here and get cheaper and cheaper wages," said Louise Whiteford, president of Texans for Immigration Reform. ''That's what the big corporations want: to eliminate the middle class." Whiteford questioned the security consequences of workers in the city without valid documents. ''We have a terror situation," she said. "Why do we want people we don't know floating around the city?"

Good grief. Every stereotypical argument is laid out there. I can almost hear the whup-whup of the rotors as the new president elect of the North American Union, Wal Mart CEO Greed E. Person orders the black helicopters to blast a middle class suburb into oblivion. Question is, if corporations want to eliminate the middle class, who are they going to get their greedy profits from?

Like I said, an interesting article.

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