A few months ago,  in Phoenix, illegal immigration opponents  testified tearfully  about how cops had been shot by undocumented immigrants. This wasn’t a street rally, it was a state senate subcommittee hearing chaired by Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, who spearheaded passage of The Employer Sanctions Act and other state laws that Sheriff Joe Arpaio now cites as reasons for  his raids.

For what must have been the umpteenth time, Pearce  listened to his own son, a sheriff’s deputy, detail how he’d  been shot three times by an undocumented immigrant during a bust that went awry.

The senior Pearce was near tears as he rattled off names of  cops in Arizona and across the nation who  had been killed  by undocumented immigrants.

It is awful, Senator Pearce. I agree.

It’s also awful when undocumented immigrants are stabbed by teens who said they were on the prowl for “beaners.”

This is why the New York based  activist group Long Island Wins focuses today on  the slaughter of  Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero. The New York  group, which advocates for immigrants rights and comprehensive immigration reform, has launched a memorial of Lucero on the anniversary of his death. You can read about it here.

The point is, undocumented immigrants, like cops, shouldn’t be slaughtered on the streets.

It works both ways.