The Tribune deserves credit for having run a sensible editorial (April 15) on the nonsensical measure passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would kick undocumented immigrant children out of public schools, only a week after running a reprehensible column by Linda Bowles on the same subject (Op-Ed, April 9).
While timely and laudable, a single editorial a week after the Bowles column hardly rights the balance or, in my opinion, entirely fulfills the Tribune’s obligation to speak the truth in this matter.
By contrast, the New York Times ran a story on the subject in which national officials of the Fraternal Order of Police and Chicago’s own Police Supt. Matt Rodriguez were quoted to the effect that putting hundreds or thousands of kids out of school and on the streets will result in a wave of crime and social pathology that will cost local governments and individual citizens and businesses dearly for years to come. Why didn’t we read such a story in the Tribune?
