Thursday, July 19, 2007

By the way, on the immigration issue...

...did you catch this? It appeared in a New York Times editorial on the proposed immigration bill (the one that went down to defeat in the senate not long ago). What caught my eye was wheen the Times' editors wrote this: "It is the nation’s duty to welcome immigrants, to treat them decently and give them the opportunity to assimilate."

Hmmm. Really? Even illegal immigrants? We have a "duty" to unquestioningly welcome all of them, too?
And is there no limit to this "duty" to welcome immigrants? Will our living space, our housing, our health and educational resources, be unlimited? I don't think so. But it's remarkable that the NY Times' editors (and others) think differently.