Immigration Law

NYT: THE GREAT IMMIGRATION PANIC

By Greg Siskind

The newspaper of record has another excellent editorial on the costs to the country of the war on illegal immigration. Here's the compelling opening of the piece:

Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don?t mean dollars, though those are being squandered by the billions. The true cost is to the national identity: the sense of who we are and what we value. It will hit us once the enforcement fever breaks, when we look at what has been done and no longer recognize the country that did it.

A nation of immigrants is holding another nation of immigrants in bondage, exploiting its labor while ignoring its suffering, condemning its lawlessness while sealing off a path to living lawfully. The evidence is all around that something pragmatic and welcoming at the American core has been eclipsed, or is slipping away.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).