‘Twas the day for Giving. Now are days for re-gifting–passing unneeded or unwanted gifts on to others, or Return to Sender. Given our anti-immigrant rhetoric and legislation, it’s time to send the Statue of Liberty back to France. Call it a re-gifting of Lady Liberty. We don’t like immigrants. But did we ever? Killing the […]
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Re-Gifting Lady Liberty
December 29, 2010
Posted in Politics, Social Issues |
Tags: Bracero program, Christmas gifts, Eiffel Tower, France, Frank Sinatra, George W. Bush, Lucky Luciano, Mexican migrant labor, Mitch McConnell, Pres. Sarkozy, Statue of Liberty
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Thank God for Arizona
July 12, 2010Were it not for the benighted legislators of that state we wouldn’t be having a long-overdue national discussion regarding immigration. If such people did not exist, we would have to create them. Before, there was no real “dialogue,” just one-sided, loud declamations by people with no knowledge of immigration history and other, always-present xenophobes who […]
Posted in Politics, Race in America, Social Issues, Uncategorized |
Tags: Arizona law, Bracero program, Immigration, Russell Pearce
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Ichabod's Kin 