Flag Of Their Fathers
Appearing in today’s FrontPageMag, John Ponte reports:
Relax, don’t worry, assimilation is working. The illegal immigrants just want to be patriotic citizens like everyone else. Given our compassion and a certain amount of time, they will join us in the New America. This is what our friends in the Open Border Rightâ€â€Jack Kemp, Grover Norquist, the Chamber of Commerce, David Brooks, Fred Barnes, the Bush administrationâ€â€have been telling us for years and are insisting is the right way now that the issue of immigration reaches critical mass.
But unfortunately for them, one picture betrays a thousand lies. The picture on Michelle Malkin’s blog yesterday tells it all. American high school students, the children of immigrants and, therefore, those who are supposed to represent our Brave New Future, turned an American flag upside down, put a Mexican flag triumphantly on top of it, and then ran that up the flagpole. Now it is time to have a national “conversation†(isn’t that the preferred term) about this photograph. The picture and what it represents are not simply about “ethnic pride,†“dual loyalty,†or even allegiance to a foreign stateâ€â€all of these things reprehensible enoughâ€â€but rather an image that reveals a visceral distaste for American liberal democracy and a desire to cash out rather than buy into the American Dream.
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March 30th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Mexicans assimilate at the same rate as immigrants from other countries. The problem is sheer number of them (500,000 illegals) coming in every year making it seem like they aren’t assimilating.
The US will never have the nerve to deport 11 million. So priority must be on building an effective barrier along the border to prevent future illegal immigration. The battle is lost for those already here.
KFI-LA keeps running these sound bites of high school protesters. It is the funniest thing in the world listing to these students who have absolutely no clue what the issue is. freedom of speech, Martin Luther King’s right to protest, freedom, how Bush is going to deport all Mexicans, etc.
March 30th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I just wonder what color the sky is in the world of those shouting out that they have a right to be here.
Rights are given by the law, and which country’s law says that? It isn’t Mexico’s and it sure the heck isn’t America’s!