The Progressive Pulse’s Andrea Verykoukis saddened by the recent “glut of of anti-immigration news,” especially the just-referenced N&O piece on Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson.
Verykoukis was appalled by Johnson’s “mean-spirited” comment:
Their values are a lot different — their morals — than what we have here. In Mexico, there’s nothing wrong with having sex with a 12-, 13-year-old girl … They do a lot of drinking down in Mexico.”
Verykoukis goes on, saying Americans need to
… take the time to examine our own communities and lives and decide that we too will forgo the labor that so very many of us have come to rely on for our own convenience. Wouldn’t that be something? Instead of raging blithely and ignorantly against other people and their moral failings, we could examine our own hypocrisy. Maybe then we could talk about immigration enforcement or, if the mood is right, even amnesty. Don’t hold your breath, though, I don’t have high hopes for any of these things coming to pass. The businesses that make so much money off these poor people are also powerful political contributors. More powerful, sadly, than you and I.
Though I’m fully aware of the strain illegal immigrants place on our resources, I’m not rabidly anti-immigration. In my mind, it quiets the hate-America crowd because they’re ill-pressed to explain why everyone is flocking to such a crappy country.
Yet I can’t understand why people take the view that illegal immigrants shouldn’t face deportation if they have any dispute with the law. Hence word illegal, right? It’s just one of the risks of life on the edge. It’s kind of like driving home after a big night at the bar and some other idiot slams into you. The cops aren’t going to look the other way when you stumble out of the car.
