Those on the pro-immigrant left have shown considerable courage in taking on Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Minutemen vigilantes, border walls and an endless supply of lame immigration enforcement measures. But there’s one thing that makes them tremble: the word "illegal."
That’s what occurs to me whenever I hear the slogan: "No human being is illegal." It’s the creed of the immigrant rights movement — a cause for which I’d have warmer feelings if it called itself "the immigrant responsibility movement." Americans often demand their rights while ignoring their responsibilities. Immigrants would do well not to adopt those ways.
No human being is illegal.
http://www.star-telegram.com/1020/story/1860346.html
[Posted by Aaron Mendez]
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