{"id":880,"date":"2007-06-01T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T17:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/01\/two-sides-of-immigration\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T17:33:29","slug":"two-sides-of-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Two Sides of Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0[James Lileks and Hugh Hewitt] also discussed the immigration bill. I tire of the preludes one has to make in these situations, all the protestations of anti-nativism. It\u2019s not enough to say you\u2019re in favor of immigration, and lots of it; anything short of dropping thousands of blank American birth certificates on the other side of the Rio Grande is construed as Nativist Hysteria. All I want is a fence, but even that desire makes people jump up and shout at the house HEY! what gives you the right \/ to put a fence to keep people out and keep your antiquated concept of privileged-status Northern European culture in? If God was here to tell it to your face, man, you\u2019re some kind of sinner! (I swear I\u2019ve done that riff before. Gah: well, I think you\u2019re allowed to quote the Five Man Electrical Band twice in your life before you\u2019re slapped with a wet copy of \u201cRamparts\u201d magazine.) What really irks me more than the Administration\u2019s mulishness is their tone-deaf replies to the bill\u2019s opponents, and it really is Le Straw Finale.\u00a0 Add to the list of lesser mistakes to which any administration composed of human-type people is prone, add the ham-fistery evident in their handling of those events, add the attenuated death of the Bush doctrine, interred quietly in the first bilateral talks with Iran since the war began almost three decades ago, and add the nagging, itchy suspicion that Iranian involvement in the Iraq conflict might have been turned away at an earlier opportunity with a judicious, gravity-assisted MOAB in a crucial industrial facility, and you have a general Throwing Up of The Hands on the right. Self-inflicted wounds, every one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stupid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve no doubt that the xenophobic right is upset about Bush\u2019s immigration proposal…\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take your pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smart: \u00a0[James Lileks and Hugh Hewitt] also discussed the immigration bill. I tire of the preludes one has to make in these situations, all the protestations of anti-nativism. It\u2019s not enough to say you\u2019re in favor of immigration, and lots of it; anything short of dropping thousands of blank American birth certificates on the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}