The NYTimes has another illegal immigrant sob story and heartstring tugger, by Nina Bernstein (who specializes in such anecdotal propagandized tales ): Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall. Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period when the law singled them out for exclusion, the man, Tun Funn Hom, had entered as a “paper son,” with false identity papers that claimed his father was a native citizen.

(This video contains disturbing violence.)Savages.That is the only way to describe the creatures that beat young Derrion Albert to death in the bloody streets of a Chicago neighborhood.Derrion, described as a nice, respectful honor-roll student, was walking home from school when he was accosted by members from rival factions in his neighborhood. (Those factions are normally referred to as “gangs”, but you wouldn’t know it from some reports.)Some of these animals punched him. Some kicked.