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Teddy Kennedy

August 26th, 2009 | Category: Angels, Civil Rights, Congress, Democrats, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Immigration, Ted Kennedy | Comments are closed

First, they came for the immigrants.

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In October, 2000, if you had predicted a George W. Bush presidency would include the Vice President lobbying the Senate for the right to torture people, you would have been called an alarmist nutjob. If you had predicted the President, himself, would threaten to veto any legislation that curbed torture of prisoners [...]

June 8th, 2006 | Category: Civil Rights, Immigration | Comments are closed

Do as I say, not as I do

Apparently oblivious to the breathtaking irony of the moment, The Decider sent forth the Snowman with this edict:

“What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language,” Snow said. “It’s as simple as that.” (Um, sure, Tony)

May 20th, 2006 | Category: Bush, Immigration | Comments are closed

And here it is – the immigration payoff

You didn’t think this immigration “crisis” was real. You knew it had a manufactured feel to it. You couldn’t quite put your finger on it, but there was something unsaid, some real reason for all the sudden commotion, that had nothing to do with stealing jobs or draining resources.

True, it served well as [...]

May 18th, 2006 | Category: BushCo, Immigration | Comments are closed

Is Spanish “Banner” a litmus test for racism?

None of the arguments in favor of coming down hard on undocumented immigrants rings true. They all seem to have undercurrents of manufactured fear and unacknowledged racism.

People fool themselves that their only concern is for the rule of law, the letter of the law – even though most of these same people aren’t quite [...]

April 28th, 2006 | Category: Immigration, Race | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Sleeping with an ILLEGAL ALIEN

I’ve avoided the immigration debate until now because it seemed like such a futile argument. Nobody’s changing anyone’s mind and the whole thing had such a manufactured quality to it that I expected someone to jump up and yell “SUCKA!!!!” if I took the bait.

But over at Democratic Underground, AztecGringo put an irresistibly human [...]

April 10th, 2006 | Category: Immigration | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)