I had intended to write again about the DREAM Act, given that it will be up for a vote during the lame duck Congress, probably within the week. Another DREAM post, to follow my many similar postings, would be more time-sensitive than ever in view of an analysis by Lamar Smith (incoming head
November 2010
Do Touch the Immigration Junk – And turn it into DREAMs
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John Tyner, a San Diego software engineer and newly minted American folk hero, faces an $11,000 civil-disobedience fine for refusing an intimate groping, dubbed by Orwellian bureaucrats as an “enhanced patdown,” that Hillary Clinton would herself refuse. The man who threatened a citizen’s arrest if his “junk” were touched epitomizes an aroused populace…
Rethinking Immigration: A View from the Audience
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This week at a health care hearing a Tennessee state legislator unleashed a repulsive metaphor. He likened immigrants illegally in the country to “rats” who “multiply.” Once my feelings of outrage and disgust subsided, I began to ponder how quickly metaphors can electrify emotions and make reasoned discussion of immigration so difficult. Using Twitter, I…
Rethinking Immigration: California Dreamin’
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After witnessing an election that may shift most of the country and the federal government sharply to the right on immigration reform, I desperately needed a diversion. Preparing for two upcoming speaking gigs filled the bill. On Monday, I will speak on immigration to the Roman Catholic clergy of Orange County, California, and a week…