Posting To Resume Monday

Taking a break … check back Monday for new posts. In the meantime, take a look at the many previous posts that are here.

~Chrys

Border Patrol Ad Watch: Day 3

Today is Day 3 of the Village of Carpentersville website posting for the Federal Border Patrol. The ad for recruits to “protect America’s Southwest border” would require residents to move out of Carpentersville to take the job … since the southwest border of the U.S. is a few thousand miles away. Certainly not an easy commute.

Carpentersville Action Network wholly supports the work of those on the front lines of protecting our borders and enforcing our laws, but this ad simply doesn’t make sense for Carpentersville to put on the Village website because of a number of reasons previously mentioned. The explanation from Village Manager Craig Anderson, (although he is probably not responsible for specifically directing the posting of the ad), might make sense if the ad was for local recruitment for federal positions with ICE or other agencies.

I believe that Carpentersville, if it does not remove this ad, should modify its purpose statement, to show that they care so much that they will even help residents by posting reasons to move out of the Village:

We have designed this site to provide information about our community to those residing or working in, visiting, or planning to move to or from the Village of Carpentersville.

C’mon folks, how long are you going to let this go on? Really.