This oversimplifies things. Illegal aliens work the low-paying, no-benefit, dirty jobs in our society--slaughtering animals, cleaning hotels, day laboring, migrating to pick vegetables. They also create a lot of business through renting homes, buying and maintaining cars, purchasing groceries, etc. One of the effects of the raids in Postville and Marshalltown was the drop in sales for the local American-owned businesses. If Americans aren't working the jobs that illegal aliens are right now, it's because Americans can't get by on those wages or refuse to work in those conditions, or because certain business don't want potential whistle blowers working for them. Illegal immigrants tend to be fearful and desperate, which works in the favor of the business owners who take advantage of that. Some life.

If there is that much jaywalking in that location, it suggests to me that pedestrian needs have not been adequately addressed by the city. How about a foot bridge, for example?

According to your logic, anything less than shooting, kidnapping, or murdering someone should just be ignored.

Wow, I guess there are a lot of people here who think it would be better to let perverts do their deeds on actual children rather than try to prevent them from occurring.

People who conduct these stings are well trained in how to pose as a child without entrapping the predator. These stings are thankfully legal, and they require the pedophile to take meaningful steps toward the completion of a crime before they can be arrested. I'd say showing up at a marina in another town for the express purpose of hooking up with a minor under the age of 16 (age of consent in Iowa) fills the bill. Who knows how many children were saved from harm because of this sting.

I say kudos to the law enforcement personnel who do this kind of unsavory work and make the world a little safer for children.