In an act of stunning stupidity, a man being arrested for using a student metro card on the subway in Queens, NY wrestled with the officer and shot two people before being disabled.  The man said that he was afraid that he would be deported if he were arrested.

First I want to acknowledge how extreme and dumb his reaction was.  It’s not like he was going to get away.  But I want to focus on another part of the story.  He said that he was scared of being deported.  It seems like a clear indication that the tightening immigration rules is putting illegal immigrants on edge.  And they often feel like it is safer to risk living outside of the law than to take their chances living within the law, because the law does not respect them.

Yet the tightening of rules ignores the fundamental and everyday living of this country that depends on new workers.  Immigration restrictions hurt America.