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March 29, 2006
Laura Ingraham - High School Kids Protesting Immigration Reform
Today on the Laura Ingraham Show, Laura expressed dismay at the fact that high school kids were being encouraged to join the recent immigration protests.
To a certain extent, I can understand the reasoning behind using high school students in this way. When you're a teenager, protesting makes you feel grown up and important, and this may outweigh any consideration of whether or not the protest makes sense. But even young adults are being sucked in by the romance of this new protest movement. Here's what one college student had to say about making illegal immigration a felony.
I think it’s just inhumane. ... Everybody deserves the right to a better life,”
Okay, but there are lots of countries where a better life is possible. In particular, if they would be agitating for a better standard of living in Mexico, this whole problem would go away.
If you think I'm being harsh, ask yourself what makes that statement harsh: a general perception that prosperity and reform in Mexico is impossible.
Vicente Fox was supposed to be the instrument by which Mexico would lift itself out of economic stagnation caused by the corrupt PRI government; however, after his election, the more liberal of the two parties supporting his coalition government switched sides, leaving reform efforts paralyzed. So, after six years of reform government, nothing's changed, people are still fleeing north, and the United States finds itself in a situation where citizens of a foreign country who aren't even supposed to be here are demanding special rights.
I wish I were making this up.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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