Council should discuss/revise city's sanctuary policy
ONE REASON we don't take some MSM journos seriously when they engage in "fact-checking" and "analysis" is that too often the end product just appears to be editorializing posing as something more objective. Quaintly (it seems), we prefer straight reporting of news/facts, so that we can decide what we think for ourselves.
Perry vs World analyzes one such instance of editorializing-as-fact-checking that involves Houston: The debate over Houston's "sanctuary city" status, and Politifact's opinion that it's not.
We like Cory Crow's term PolitiFarce for this sort of editorializing-posing-as-fact-checking that we sometimes see from these folks.
On a related note, Mayor Annise Parker recently asserted that Houston is not a sanctuary city.
We hope that means that, unlike former Mayor Bill White, she will allow City Council seriously to discuss revisions to General Order 500-5, the edict from HPD chief Sam Nuchia in 1992 that established Houston's sanctuary policy. We believe that elected officials should be vetting and deciding such policies, and that a discussion of that order's positives/negatives is certainly warranted after nearly two decades.
UPDATE: Perry vs World posts even more on Houston's sanctuary status.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/01/10 09:33 AM | Print |
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