Quote of the Day: Overzealous media or commentator?

For the record, I'm not for unregulated immigration, nor do I think we should condone littering along the border.

But the growing cable television and radio talk show hysteria claming undocumented workers are security threats (despite the fact that not one single of the 9/11 terrorists entered the United States through the Mexican border) or environmental threats (despite the fact that those of us who live legally in America are by most standards the biggest polluters on earth) is ridiculous.

--Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer (image) blasted U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff’s assertion that illegal immigrants “degrade” the environment along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In his latest piece, Oppenheimer believed that Chertoff’s remarks were part of the “anti-Hispanic immigrant hype” pervasive in the media and concludes that “greater economic integration” in the Americas would alleviate migration into the U.S.

By the way, Oppenheimer is not a writer on the extreme left by any stretch of the imagination; previous articles by him show a deep dislike of Hugo Chavez as well as strong supporter of free trade.

Sources- Associated Press, Miami Herald

Image- Oppenheimer Presenta