In a tragic act of savagery, six people were killed and several others injured in recent home-invasion robberies in South Georgia, all were described by the press as Hispanic “immigrants”.

An interesting thing about today’s media – while is repeated many times in every report that the victims of the monstrous crimes are ‘Hispanic”, “Mexican” and Latino” – and obligingly referred to as “immigrants” [most, if not all, were illegal aliens, not “immigrants”], throughout the report – the race, ethnicity or nationality of those who have been arrested and charged with the killings remains a mystery to even the most attentive reader.

Tisha Tallman, the Regional Counsel of the local chapter of that all-American outfit, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund [MALDEF] was granted space in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal Constitution to comment on the killings.

For those who are relatively new to what some call the “national debate” [should we secure our borders and enforce our laws – or illegally leave our borders virtually open and have an amnesty program for the millions of resulting illegal aliens and those who employ them every twenty years or so?] on American immigration, we offer a bit of insight into Tallman’s observations on the failings of our immigration system .

Comrade Tallman:

“Has our society gotten to the point that labels such as “illegal” connote “otherness” to such a degree that our immigrant brothers and sisters are beaten to death as a matter of course?”

Translation?

Most if not all of the victims of the crimes in Tifton were criminals themselves, but correctly labeling them as “illegal” is not only somehow immoral – Tallman wants us to further believe it to be the reason that the murderous thugs attacked them.

It wasn’t.

“Now, the blood is on all our hands”

We all beat and shot these poor people through our insistence on retaining some semblance of the rule of law that we were given to govern our own country.

It becomes a mathematical impossibility for our immigrant brothers and sisters to do something about their status. But this is not the focus of our public debate.

Having crossed our borders illegally, there is no system by which these criminals can be made “legal”. [ [Amnesty]

Nor will there be.

It is time to educate ourselves and become aware of the larger context, one in which we all play a part. We must demand change and that the violence stop.

Here, we agree with Tallman. We do need to educate ourselves on the perils to the American way of life, rule of law and standard of living that illegal immigration presents.

And yes, the violence must stop.

The change that we must all demand?

We must find and elect leaders who will insure that our borders be secured, the illegal aliens presently in our republic are sent home, and that those who employ them are punished, as existing laws demand.