The old-line newspapers only rarely publish outright lies. Rather, their bias — and they all have an editorial bias! — shows not in actual reporting, but in what they choose to report, and choose not to cover.

And so it is with The Philadelphia Enquirer. No, that’s not how it’s actually spelled, but RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it. However, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I thought it very apt.

Well, the Inquirer, to use the proper spelling, loves them some illegal immigration, and naturally the newspaper’s website main page was filled with such stories on Sunday morning:

• Our stories are one of the strongest forms of resistance to Trump’s fascist assault, by columnist Helen Ubiñas.
• Why I voted no on the Laken Riley Act, by Representative Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA 06)
• What are your rights if ICE comes to your home or work? Local immigration experts discuss how ICE operates and explain your civil rights, by Henry Savage. The article contains a blurb informing Inquirer readers that also read it in Spanish, something I’ve rarely seen in the Inky.
• ICE raided his family’s North Philly car wash. Here is Jeffrey Lee’s account of what happened. by Michelle Myers.
• Why would ICE target a North Philly car wash for arrests? Immigration experts think they know. Immigration experts say an outdoor business can be an inviting location for enforcement. Among the advantages: No need for a warrant, by Jeff Gammage and Michelle Myers

It was the last listed story which contained some useful information. After a few sob story paragraphs about the poor, pitiful illegal immigrants, working hard to support their families, came this:

(P)eople familiar with the federal immigration system say the raid could have been triggered in a couple of ways — and might not have been designed as a raid at all.

Ricky Palladino, an attorney at Palladino, Isbell & Casazza LLC, a leading Philadelphia immigration law firm, is not involved in the case but said he suspected ICE targeted one or two workers, perhaps because they had been issued final orders of deportation.

Then, at the car wash, ICE was able to identify others who were undocumented and took them into custody, too, making what are known as collateral arrests.

A car wash can be an inviting location for enforcement, Palladino said. The workers are outdoors, so ICE agents can approach them freely, without a warrant. The officers need not worry about trying to get into a house, or that there could be weapons inside a home. . . . .

In a separate interview, Steven Morley, a retired Philadelphia immigration court judge, agreed that a car wash is attractive to ICE because agents do not have to try to enter a building. In this case agents likely got “a tip about people without documentation, who already have orders of removal,” said Morley, now of counsel at Landau, Hess, Simon, Choi & Doebley, a Philadelphia firm that exclusively handles immigration cases.

This, to me, is very interesting, because it tells us that the previously caught and ordered-for-deportation illegals are harming their fellow illegals by staying in the country and associating or working with other illegals in situations which lead to the less-targeted ‘migrants’ to be caught and picked up as well. It would seem that the Administration of our 46^th President, by not directly and immediately shipping out those illegals who already had “orders of removal”, has made things easier for our 47^th President to find and round up even more illegal immigrants. 🙂

Many on the left have complained that ICE has not been arresting just those illegals with criminal backgrounds, but sweeping in the ‘migrants’ who have committed no crimes. Well, they committed a crime by coming here illegally in the first place, which shows that argument to be silly and stupid. But it strikes me as the opposite side of the argument of the guy pulled over for speeding, complaining that the state troopers didn’t get the other drivers speeding past. In this case, ICE is trying to get everybody breaking the law.

Pennsylvania business records show Complete Autowash Philly opened in 2007 and identify the company president as David Lee.

His son, Jeffrey Lee, 35, said he was heading to work at the wash when a phone call popped up through the car’s Bluetooth. The caller ID read “Dad,” but it was an ICE officer on the line.

“They said, ‘We are here to take some illegals. If you don’t hear from us, then don’t worry about it,’” Lee said in an interview. “I thought: What do you mean, ‘Don’t worry about it’? These are my people.”

Lee said he is a first-generation Korean American, and his father, David, does not speak much English. Jeffrey Lee said the business hired undocumented people because no U.S. citizens would take the jobs, given the work’s physical demands and discomfort.

“I thought that the administration was going after violent criminals, but these people are innocent, honest, hardworking people,” he said.

It sounds to me like that is another arrest which has to be made. It sounds to me as though the younger Mr Lee admitted that the business was aware that it had “hired undocumented people,” which is also against the law. It would be perfectly reasonable for the Lees to be charged and prosecuted, and whatever happens to their business, built as it has been on using illegal labor, happens.

The illegals come here for one reason: their homelands are what President Trump famously described as “[insert vulgar slang term for feces here]hole countries,” and they believed that they could earn more and have a better life in the United States. If the immigration crackdown extends to the businesses which hire them, the lure of the US for citizens of those crap countries will be greatly diminished.

The removal of illegal immigrants is and will be a mean, nasty job, but President Trump campaigned on doing just that, and, as we have previously noted, that’s what the majority of the public want to see done.