'Terrified undocumented immigrants'

Reach for your handkerchief, because al-Reuters pulled out all the liberal stops today to make us feel guilty about deporting law breakers who have no business being here.

Cook Rosa Maria Salazar's eyes dart anxiously to the door as customers file into the Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.

"We're terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us," she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas stuffed with beans and pork scratchings and chatted softly.

The 55-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala is among many Hispanics deeply shaken by recent immigration raids at the heart of Latino communities in southern California.

The-seven day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweep, dubbed "Operation Return to Sender," targeted jails across five counties in the Los Angeles area, where police took 423 of what they called "criminal aliens" into federal custody for deportation, after being held on charges unrelated to their immigration status.

In case you were wondering, "deeply shaken" is a much more severe form of the condition, "shaken."

I don't have much pity for folks who sneak into the country illegally -- criminal aliens -- and then get "terrified" they will be asked to leave.