Our immigration debate is weaponized. Why we need to disarm | John L. Micek [Video]

If you want to get people going, write about our immigration debate.

Few issues provoke more emotions or elicit more opinions than the social, budgetary, and political pressures exerted by the situation at the nation’s southern border and its downstream effects on states such as Massachusetts.

I was reminded of that again recently with our coverage of the failed efforts on Capitol Hill to get a compromise immigration reform bill onto President Joe Biden’s desk.

My inbox filled up, seemingly within minutes, after those stories appeared on MassLive’s homepage.

“We have 160+ nations flying to Mexico so they can take advantage of Joe Boden’s (sic) open border policies,” one reader wrote. “This recent immigration bill was not intended to solve illegal immigration but to fast track it for the democratic parties (sic) future.”

Another reader objected to our describing the Bay State’s ever-expanding migrant population, in another story, as “new arrivals.”

“No, [they’re] ‘Illegals,’” they wrote.

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