One of the things we'll do here frequently is go back to things written or said a few days or weeks ago by prominent persons, and/or at least things that appeared in prominent places, and/or things written or said that SHOULD have gotten more attention that they did, but didn't...things you might have missed the first time.
Example 1 for today: a column written by the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson a few weeks ago, on the illegal immigration issue. Mr. Robinson writes of the roughly 12 million (I suspect there are more) illegal immigrants in this country: "...those 12 million or so people are already settled here, that for the most part they are doing jobs our society wants done, and that any serious attempt to drive them out of the country -- even "temporarily," so they could apply to be let back in -- would be indistinguishable from a pogrom....Would SWAT teams of immigration officers descend on neighborhoods and go door to door? Would they snatch children out of schools? Where would they take these people? To special camps? To the nearest border?"
A "pogrom"? Really?? And who's talking about SWAT teams going door to door?
I would suggest this: no serious person is talking about deporting 12 million people. Some howevere reasonably suggest that a more vigorous, constant, and public deportation of some of the illegal immigrants who can be caught just might deter more illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border. That's the real argument being made by reasonable folks; not Mr. Robinson's false, scary straw man.
