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By TigerHawk at 4/11/2006 07:17:00 AM
I’m well-known among my readers for being “soft” on illegal immigration, so many of you may not share my enthusiasm for this picture, from the front page of today’s New York Times:
photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2040/308/400/immigrationrallydc.jpg
That’s tens of thousands of immigrants, all waving flags and signs that say “We Are America.” Whatever issues one has with the many cultural questions posed by heavy immigration, illegal or otherwise, America’s illegal immigrants are campaigning for inclusion and more fluid labor markets. As a general matter, they want opportunity, not a handout (the handouts in this country aren’t that great, anyway). Compare the comportment of our demonstrators with the burning cars of France in November, or the demands of our immigrants with those of French students this spring, who committed arson in opposition to a truly trivial liberalization of the labor market. After years of listening to European sanctimony about the supposed cruelty of the American system, I’ll take our social problems any day of the week.
tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/04/immigration-rallies-in-context.html
I’m well-known among my readers for being “soft” on illegal immigration, so many of you may not share my enthusiasm for this picture, from the front page of today’s New York Times:
photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2040/308/400/immigrationrallydc.jpg
That’s tens of thousands of immigrants, all waving flags and signs that say “We Are America.” Whatever issues one has with the many cultural questions posed by heavy immigration, illegal or otherwise, America’s illegal immigrants are campaigning for inclusion and more fluid labor markets. As a general matter, they want opportunity, not a handout (the handouts in this country aren’t that great, anyway). Compare the comportment of our demonstrators with the burning cars of France in November, or the demands of our immigrants with those of French students this spring, who committed arson in opposition to a truly trivial liberalization of the labor market. After years of listening to European sanctimony about the supposed cruelty of the American system, I’ll take our social problems any day of the week.
tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/04/immigration-rallies-in-context.html