Here’s the thing Jan, I understand that you feel you have not been heard by the President, that he lectured you, and that your visit to the White House was less than pleasant. I also understand that you believe that immigrants are stealing American jobs and, therefore, the Arizona law was justified. I get all that. But is showing up at the tarmac to stick your finger in the President’s face and deliver a hand-written note really respect?
And just for the record I personally am against shipping illegal immigrants back to where they came from, unless that includes all the Irish, Germans, and English who came to America to escape poverty and religious persecution.
I’m glad Newt and Mitt are getting into the act actually talking about immigration instead of ignoring it. But how about we focus on how to make the folks who are already here productive tax-paying members of society rather than using them as a political football.
Take, for instance, what Bob Hildreth is doing. He has been using mico-finance savings circles to help immigrants save for their children’s education and, in the process, changed the whole dynamic of us vs. them here in Massachusetts.
A Dream Act: On Education, Immigration, and Goodness
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“And just for the record I personally am against shipping illegal immigrants back to where they came from, unless that includes all the Irish, Germans, and English who came to America to escape poverty and religious persecution.”
The difference being those Irish,German,and English came into this country LEGALLY.
This sure makes it look like you only recognize and respect those laws that fit into your narrow world view.
Illegal aliens are criminal by definition.
If you want to fight a law,fight mandantory arrest procedures for men accused of DV.
Except that he isn’t the leader of the free world, but of America, or the USA if you prefer. When you incarcerate more than 6 million people, more than what was incarcerated in Russia under Stalin, there’s nothing “free” about the “freedom” you yanks keep on prattling about…
As a black man living in Arizona not two hours away from the border, I have to agree. Let’s focus on helping people who shouldn’t be here and attacking those who suggest “follow the law”. How dare governor Brewer try to give Obama a letter inviting him to dinner and a tour of the border? (Besides, if she really wanted to be ‘respectful’, she should’ve called him an idiot or made a movie about assassinating him like the critics of the last President did.) Why should we worry about stupid little details like how Phoenix, AZ was at one point… Read more »
Confrontational actions don’t solve problems. They only make enemies.
She has a point.
Look what all those illegal European immigrants started to do to Native Americans 400 years ago. They arrived illegally, stole things without permission, raped and murdered, took American jobs, brought their horrible diseases, brought their bizarre diet and weird customs, and refused to learn the languages that people had been speaking here for centuries. She is a living example of how illegal immigrants can totally overrun a country.
I would love it if we heard more of the Native American view of immigration. They have a longer history with it.
Come to think of it, the fact that being born in Hawai’i males one a U.S. citizen, the way that Hawai’i became a state in the first place is a good example of what happens when a country (the Kingdom of Hawai’i) fails to properly regulate its immigration. Let in the wrong sort, and there goes your government….
Tom. If I heard the same reports, the contretemps was due to president thinskin’s objection to Brewer’s book. His complaint, not hers.
You will note that the cartels are now beheading in Arizona, just as Brewer predicted, and for which she was condemned. Getting it right frequently annoys Those Who Know Better than the rest of us, we bitter clingers.
We can talk about controlling the border without, I hope, being called racist and mixing it up with illegals. And the descendants of all those Europeans you talk about aren’t going to be shipped back. They’re all born here.
Nicely stated.
Nahh, Jan Brewer was probably just demanding “I don’t care who you claim to be! Show me your papers!”
That’s a plausible possibility. 🙂 Another possible caption for that photo: “And wait until you see what this little chat does for my book sales!!!”