Posted on 04/15/2013 11:40:03 AM PDT by jazusamo
Most laws are meant to stop people from doing something, and to penalize those who disregard those laws. More generally, laws are meant to protect the society from the law breakers.
But our immigration laws are different. Here the whole focus is on the "plight" of those who have broken the laws, and on what can be done to lift the stigma and ease the pressures they feel, so that they can "come out of the shadows" and "normalize" their lives.
Merely using the word "illegal" to describe their breaking the law is considered to be a sign of mean-spiritedness, if not racism. The Associated Press refuses to let their reporters refer to people who sneaked across the border into this country, in violation of American immigration laws, as "illegal immigrants."
On the other hand, if an ordinary American citizen breaks a law, no one cares if he has to live in fear for years — "in the shadows," as it were — worrying that his illegal act will be discovered and punished. No one bothers to come up with euphemisms to keep from calling what he did illegal.
No cities announce that they will provide "sanctuary," so that American shoplifters, or even jay-walkers, will be protected from the law. But, in some places, illegal immigrants are treated almost as if they were in a witness protection program.
What is even more remarkable about this special treatment is that you are not supposed to think about it as special treatment. When a new immigration law is proposed that simply overlooks violations of the old law, that is not supposed to be called "amnesty" — even though the word "amnesty" has the same root as "amnesia." It is all about forgetting.
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Dr. Sowell hits it out of the park, as usual.
I failed to ping you both to this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007546/posts
Regards,
When are we gonna wise up and simply make tax credits, health care, food stamps, and education free to everybody on the planet?
Why should the plight stricken actually have to physically come here to U.S. soil?
We are racist for making them do so.
And me! Don't fergit me!!! (grin)
“There won’t even be 50 states in 20 years.”
Correct.
We may as well give up the pretense that we have borders.
Are the “citizens” of Aztlan going to receive benefits and checks from USA after they declare independence?
Once again, Sowell’s hammer meets nail squarely.
Either repeal the Immigration and Naturalization statutes, or enforce them.
And that’s not an `either/or’ fallacy. This: “It’s not `comprehensive immigration reform amnesty’ position of the American Chamber of Commerce and public service unions (vis a vis our capitol hill jack-handles) is insulting to anyone who can add two and two and make four.
But they won’t do that, enforce the law or secure the border, although that’s all we demand.
They want the status quo ante: they will need more cowed, illiterate domestic slaves, `Mexican bagpipe’ operators, pool cleaners and motel maids. And the current crop is getting surly, coming `out of the shadows’ ....
You can’t have it both ways, McLame, Rubicon & `rats!
As an exclamation mark, we just paid our taxes. I rest assured that it will be well spent: on the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet another vacation for the Obamas and their retinue. To provide un-amnesty to “undocumented immigrants” and criminalize law-abiding Americans.
Whew .... Thank G_d and the Robinsons for Free Republic!
Well said...We’re being betrayed from within, and not just by liberals and leftists with a “D” after their name.
I could never forget my Waspman!
So true. I see the nation broken up into 3 parts.
Sadly, people of brilliance like Dr. Sowell, and even people of common sense, can make all the logical arguments they want. The other side is not only not listening; they are not even making a pretense any more of playing by the rules. They are waging a revolution. The rest of us are about to lose our last weapons.
Bump!
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