http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/10/obama.immigration/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1The man is on a hot streak.
This is something he promised in the 2008 campaign and sort of wound up on the back burner in the financial crisis and the battle over health care reform . (Something every president in nearly 100 years vowed and he was the first to deliver).
He hit the nail on the head. We are a nation of immigrants. With the exception of Native Americans we all came here from somewhere else. I ask every one of you who is belligerently against immigration reform to take an honest look in the mirror. Bill K, German, right? PA crew, were your folks on the Mayflower? John H., how about you? It's ridiculous.
We all know what this is really about. It's Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. They are the latest wave -- after Irish, after Italians, after Germans, and the list goes on -- to come pouring in. What makes this different is geography. We are a rich nation that shares a 2000 mile border with a poor nation. Do you honestly blame them for walking or swimming across the border to find a better life for themselves and their children? Would you not do the same?
The other thing that irritates me is the lingering image of Mexican immigrants just being tomato pickers. That is way out of date. My daughter's boyfriend is Mexican-American, American born, and will be attending one of the best colleges in the country. My girlfriend's husband was/is Mexican-American and has a top position at one of the best universities in the country. Her father asked her not to tell her grandmother that she had a Mexican-American granddaughter. I have known countless Mexican-American kids and their families through soccer. They care about the same things we do -- national pride, family, religion. They laugh at the same things "American" kids do. They tease each other and smile when they score goals. They go to Iraq and Afghanistan and die there as American soldiers. Please, really, just stop it.
