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March 29, 2006

Los Estados Unidos...de Mexico?

Being married to a resident alien (my wife is from across the pond), I'm pretty sympathetic to the plight of those wanting a better life in America (not that Britain is, say, Upper Bunga Bunga or anything, but - really - all that boiled food and the horror of socialized healthcare!).

So, this whole anti-immigration debate has been on my mind (in between thoughts of Katharine McPhee and Kellie Pickler engaged in nude mud wrestling live on the American Idol stage)... whatever the proposition, be it a wall on our border, an amnesty program, or some massive bureaucratic Federal solution that will help cement Bush's legacy as a veritable miser with our tax dollars, I'm not sure what the right answer is.

But I know that this is the wrong answer:

Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High.

Is there a handbook on idiotic protest tactics that those on the left side of the aisle pass around, all dog-eared and tattered from one failed demonstration after another?

Chapter 1: when protesting the war, vomit on public sidewalks - powerful symbology!

Chapter 2: Failing that, sell out your dead son's memory and align yourself with other anti-war groups, regardless of whom they may be - socialist and communist groups are especially good for this!

Chapter 3: To really win the hearts and minds of average Americans, make it clear you want to turn the United States into an annexation of Mexico and that you hate the flag that represents their nation! Awesome!

I welcome those that want to move here, to contribute to American society, to live out their own pursuit of the American dream. However, if think you're a modern day Santa Anna that will replace Mom and apple pie with tu madre and a burrito, let me help you find a bus heading back south.

(P.S. Don't forget, kids: comments are down - feel free to e-mail me your thoughts and I'll include them in the post)

Found via RWS.