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Thursday, May 24. 2007

George Will on illegal immigration

A quote:

In 1986, when there probably were 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants, Americans accepted an amnesty because they were promised that border control would promptly follow. Today the 12 million illegal immigrants, 60 percent of whom have been here five or more years, are as numerous as Pennsylvanians; 44 states have populations smaller than 12 million. Deporting the 12 million would require police resources and methods from which the nation would rightly flinch. So, why not leave bad enough alone?

People are not annoyed because they are racist. They are annoyed because they are being invaded. The fact that this particular invasion is not lead by an army is irrelevant. Whole piece at WaPo here.

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 12:16 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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"People are not annoyed because they are racist. They are annoyed because they are being invaded."

GREAT sentence!
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-05-24 13:36 (Reply)
That's possibly why all the various arguments and statistics re economic effects, seem so inconsequential.

Property rights are deep inside the emotional realm, they embody primal drives like the ability to provide for one's descendants. "Invasion" is a felt thing--you know it when you feel it.
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-05-24 13:41 (Reply)
if citizenship and laws have no meaning,
no one wants the first or obeys the latter.

as one blog pointed out...
...how many entering desire to even become citizens??
#3 gumshoe on 2007-05-24 17:54 (Reply)
In my limited experience, "they" (there really is no monolithic "they", you do understand, right?) want to escape crushing poverty with no hope of it getting better, economically or politically to a place that offers them hope and a chance of their efforts paying off to make it better.

I'm not sure that "citizenship" as a matter of beauraucratic impedimentia is important to "them" (any more that it is to me, frankly) but as a philosophic and ethical issue I think "Citizenship" is at the heart of what "they" want.
#3.1 Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. on 2007-05-24 23:06 (Reply)

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