Sunday, August 19, 2007
It never ceases to amaze me
That a country such as ours, on a continent that experienced no human tread before the onset of Homo Sapiens, a continent peopled by immigrants, can be so full of people making blood curdling cries in defense of "the native born".
Personally I want to say one thing to all those folks. My family has been in this country since the early 1600's. Being familiar with my family history, I know that my forebears said pretty much the same thing about your forebears when they came to this country. I hate the idea that they were right.
Scores of organizations, ranging from mainstream to fringe groups, are marshalling forces in what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls "a war here at home" against illegal immigration, which he says is as important as America’s conflicts being fought overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.From to 144 in five years all of it under the benevolent umbrella of the Bushoviks and Our Dear Embattled Leader. Thank God he is such a compassionate conservative!
While most of the groups register legitimate, widespread concerns about the impact of illegal immigration on jobs, social services and national security, the intense rhetoric is generating fears of an emerging dark side, evident in growing discrimination against Hispanics and a surge of xenophobia unseen since the last big wave of immigration in the early 20th century.
"I don’t think there’s been a time like this in our lifetime," said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow with the Migration Policy Institute and former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Even though immigration is always unsettling and somewhat controversial, we haven’t had this kind of intensity and widespread, deep-seated anger for almost 100 years."
The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said the number of "nativist extremist" organizations advocating against illegal immigration has grown from virtually zero just over five years ago to 144, including nine classified as hate groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan supremacists.
Personally I want to say one thing to all those folks. My family has been in this country since the early 1600's. Being familiar with my family history, I know that my forebears said pretty much the same thing about your forebears when they came to this country. I hate the idea that they were right.
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