I read with interest yesterday’s N&R front-pager on illegal immigrants ‘living in the shadows.’

It wasn’t a bad article, although it did read like a primer on a subject that’s gotten quite a bit play in news recently, especially in the Dole-Hagan Senate race. It was also fairly one-sided, though it was balanced out by a shorter piece on Alamance County Commissioner Tim Sutton, who said about his county’s crackdown in illegal immigrants:

“My heart goes out to the inconvenience it will cause in their lives,” he said. “But I didn’t put them in that position. I’ve laid in bed and prayed that what I was doing would not be deemed a sin. But I have to do my job, and I’m doing it.”