Tonight on Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume the panel discussed illegal immigrants. This was the way that thousands demonstrated for open borders, amnesty and the legalization of illegals.
Mara Liasson – of NPR and PBS - wondered aloud why a bill mandating their demands – or at least providing amnesty – had not already passed. She cited the fact that leaders of both parties are in favor of allowing illegals to stay and providing them an easy path to citizenship. So what’s the holdup?
Well, it seems the “people” are opposed. That leads to the question of the disconnect between the leaders and the people.
Many reasons are given and there is some truth, I am sure, in all of them. But there is one overwhelming difference between the “leaders” and the people: to America’s leaders Mexican immigrants are the household help: the maids and gardeners who provide the menial labor; analogous to the servants in English homes prior to the 20th century.
To the rest of America, immigrants are the competition; the people who will work for below-minimum wages. They are the people they encounter when they shop at Wal-Mart who can’t speak English and who are the reason for the bi-lingual signs in the big-box stores. They are the ones who are changing the country and competing for jobs, who are eating their tax dollars, and who they can’t afford to hire to do menial jobs because they don’t have the disposable income.
And Mara Liasson doesn’t relate because she is not one of them, never was and never will be.
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