What’s The Worst That Could Happen?

So Pir Khan was in Massachusetts illegally.  So he’s here illegally from Pakistan.  So he’s part of a Pakistani finance network that funneled money to the Times Square Truck Bomber—money he used to build his bomb.  And so what if he drives a cab, a job that takes him to Logan, under the Pru, and to other infrastructure chokepoints around Boston.

So what?

No wonder the Boston police completely ignored it when Khan wrote on his cabbie license application “Illegal” on the line asking how he came into the US.  What’s the worst that could happen?  I mean, it’s not like Boston was the key transportation hub used by the 9/11 hijackers, or boarded the planes with their boxcutters at Logan or anything like that.

Nobody is going to second-guess the sanctuary-city policies of Boston just because a couple of local illegals have been linked to a the Times Square terrorist.  Ignoring the immigration status of Muslim men from Pakistan is the right law enforcement policy, I’m sure.

And we’d all be saying the same thing if Faisal Shahzad had been a competent bomb-builder and sent a fireball soaring above Times Square, right?  If a couple dozen tourists--or a college baseball player from Massachusetts—had been blown to smithereens, Boston pols would still oppose immigration law enforcement.  Even if the money that made the bombing possible came from a guy who announced his illegal immigration status to the Boston police.  In writing.

Let’s not over-react by doing something crazy like enforcing the law.  It’s just going to upset a bunch of liberals, and besides—what harm can ignoring criminal immigration do?