The Feds "Heart" Illegal Aliens.

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition. On the one hand we have Dan Stein in the Washington Times inveighing against …

“Jose Antonio Vargas, a former Washington Post reporter, has come out of the closet and announced to the world that he is an illegal alien. In his tell-all confession, published in the New York Times Magazine, he outs not only himself, but others who abetted his illegal presence and employment in the United States, including The Post itself, which continued to employ him even after a member of the paper’s management learned that he had lied about his citizenship.”

What are the consequences for Senor Vargas?

Don’t anticipate any attempts to deport him. Despite claims to the contrary, the Obama administration opposes attempts by anyone to identify illegal aliens. In fact, they can get sued by the Obama/Holder Justice Department if they try to avoid hiring illegal aliens.

Ridiculous, you say? How’s this for exhibit "A"? Kerry Dougherty writing in the Virginian Pilot on June 30th

If you've ever suspected that Washington isn't exactly serious about stemming the tide of illegal immigration, get a load of the latest move by the Justice Department.

A crack legal team is going after a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods because it reportedly required more than the minimum amount of documentation from job applicants to prove that they were in the country legally.

In other words, Smithfield - a company that says it relies on immigrant labor - is in hot water for earnestly trying not to hire illegal workers.

And the corporation, which is headquartered in the Virginia town of the same name, will have to squander tractor-trailer loads of money on lawyers to get the feds off its back.

Illegal immigrants continue to pour into this country year after year, administration after administration, looking for work. Once they're here, an array of laws and regulations prevent public institutions - like schools and hospitals - from finding them.

The one place we ought to be able to identify illegal immigrants is on the job. Employers are required to make sure their workers are here legally. That's not always easy.

So what does Farmland Foods Inc., a unit of Smithfield, get for its extra diligence? It's being hounded by federal factotums apparently because it asked a Spanish-speaking applicant to provide proof that she's a naturalized citizen - after a background check showed that there was something odd about her Social Security number.

I've read the complaint. It levels the laughable charge of "document abuse" against Farmland because, in the course of a 2009 check on Dora De Paz - whose handwritten papers in the court filings are entirely in Spanish - the employer asked her to bring in copies of her naturalization papers.

Hello. It looks like the company was trying to give this woman a job. It had reason to believe there was something irregular about one of her documents so it asked for more. According to the court papers, this has happened many times. Now Farmland is beating back snarling federal "watchdogs."

So when you hear stories like Senor Vargas’ lifelong fears of being discovered, you can attribute it to fanciful rumors about the Federal government wishing to snatch him from his comfortable – if illegal - perch. The dirty little secret is that when it comes to illegal aliens, the Feds are on their side, even if they have to take employers to court if they get too nosy about the fake documents that they are being shown.    I suspect that Vargas has got this figured out, otherwise he would not have blown the whistle on himself.