A More Nuanced View
As this report suggests, Latino sentiment on immigration is hardly monolithic. Don't expect to read this in the MSM; it's so much easier to cover the story as a Latino vs. racist matter.
But the Latinos who are here legally are smart, and they understand that, in order for them to get a foot on the economic ladder, there can't be a "reserve army of the unemployed" (in Harold Meyerson's phrase) constantly streaming into the United States illegally.
Most of all, however, legal Latinos understand that immigration reform is above all a security issue. Without the ability and the articulated right to control our own borders, how, exactly, are we supposed to keep America safe from terrorists?
But the Latinos who are here legally are smart, and they understand that, in order for them to get a foot on the economic ladder, there can't be a "reserve army of the unemployed" (in Harold Meyerson's phrase) constantly streaming into the United States illegally.
Most of all, however, legal Latinos understand that immigration reform is above all a security issue. Without the ability and the articulated right to control our own borders, how, exactly, are we supposed to keep America safe from terrorists?
posted by Carol Platt Liebau at 7:43 AM
1 Comments:
So the bottom line is that Latino sentiment is more, like, bilithic. I lean sumptin' new everyday!
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