Burning Atlanta

This is exactly the kind of trash that sets me off. Why lie? Why deceive? Why not simply tell the truth? NOPE!! Doesn't work for their agenda. ANYONE that opposes another amnesty is a nativist extremist, racist, xenophobe, etc.. The standard drill. And don't forget to whine about the children and splitting up families.

Agenda-driven weasel

I am an immigrant advocate. I have worked in the nation’s capitol for more than a decade in pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform legislation that would enfranchise millions of undocumented workers, reunite families separated for years by restrictions and backlogs, and admit needed workers in a way that would protect their rights, and do so in a way that would restore the rule of law to our nation’s dysfunctional immigration system.

Finally, we are going to need a more aggressive and assertive communications and grassroots strategy to define and drive the debate going forward. Remarkably, the right-wing xenophobes have too often presented themselves as mainstream defenders of the American way of life. In fact, they are nothing of the sort. They use high-sounding arguments to hide their low-road disdain for immigrants from Latin America. Their ugly policy goal is to drive immigrant families — most of them Latino, some legal, some not — out of the country. They call it “attrition through enforcement” and claim that by enforcing the laws on the books, immigrants will “humanely” self-deport. But there is nothing humane about a deliberate strategy of repression aimed at driving 12 million undocumented immigrants and their millions of U.S. citizen children and loved ones out of the country. Let’s call it what it is: nothing less than a nonviolent form of ethnic cleansing. It is time to raise the moral stakes of the debate and make the choice clear to Americans: mass deportation or earned citizenship?

In addition to making it clear that opponents of broad reform are extremists that have hijacked the debate, we have to make sure we win the argument that our approach to reform — workers with rights, families that are enfranchised with all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and visa limits as well as labor laws sensibly enforced -- is better for workers, taxpayers and the rule of law. We have to run to, and not from, these issues.

The whole thing is very amusing but I wanted to highlite that one bit about the rule of law. A real knee-slapper. These are people that have no regard for our laws or they wouldn't be here but they want to take on that phrase as their banner?