Since immigration is a vast phenomenon involving millions of human beings, it would be astonishing if there were not many good and wonderful things to be said about it. And these things have, of course, been said for many years, but in such emotional and all-embracing terms that they paralyze critical thought (LINK).Since the American mind is already soaked with open-borders clichés, true balance only requires us to show how those clichés are wrong.— Lawrence Auster, Huddled Clichés, 1997
Just hours before finding her 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter stabbed to death next to their unconscious nanny on Thursday night, Marina Krim posted a new entry to a personal blog that for years had followed her children’s lives in intimate detail.
“Leo speaks in the most adorable way possible,” Krim wrote on the site LiveJournal. “He never uses ‘No’ alone, it’s always paired with ‘thank you.'”
Krim discovered the bodies of Leo, 2, and Lucia, 6, in a blood-spattered bathtub after returning home with another daughter to the family’s luxury Upper West Side apartment Thursday night. On the floor next to the tub was the nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, who police said had slashed her own throat after apparently stabbing the children.
The blog indicates that Ortega, 50, had been the family’s nanny for at least several months.
The children were rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital where they were pronounced dead shortly after. Krim was taken to the same hospital for trauma, police said.
Krim was unable to answer many of the police’s questions last night, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
“Obviously the mother was very distraught,” Kelly said.