"Perhaps we [America] should moderate our enthusiasm for insisting that other people [non-visa immigrants] do things the 'right way' until we [Americans] have a little more experience doing things the right way ourselves."
-- Sharon Kha, AZ Republic, 3/9/2016
Apparently, Ms. Kha, among other things, believes American intervention in WWII to save Europe and Asia from Hitler and Tojo was a mistake.
There really needs to be a Pulitzer Prize for being able to use false equivalence, anachronism and non-sequitur in one newspaper column. It's frightening to thing that Ms. Kha was once allowed to teach in a US high school and represent the University of Arizona.
Somehow slavery and the American Revolution are sins, according to Kha, that delegitimize any interest in enforcement of America's immigration laws. This is probably the first time I've seen the American Revolution listed as one of America's sins, but Ms. Kha being an ex-patriate Canadian, it's understandable. Canada's sovereign is still Queen Elizabeth II of England. The vestiges of the tyranny and oppression America confronted in 1776 still preclude Catholics for being the Canadian Monarch (or Queen of England). Maybe America should be more like Canada and have a monarch?
Is it dissembling or disingenuous for Ms. Kha to neglect to mention that America inherited slavery from the British. And that because cotton commerce with Britain made industrial slavery hugely profitable, America had to fight a war to end slavery and amend its Constitution to guarantee birthright citizenship. Help me with the wording, I'm just a poor bean counter.
Instead of demagoguery (non-sequitur, false equivalence and anachronism), Ms. Kha should have admitted that America does a lot right. For example, there are more immigrants living in America today than ever before thanks to our generous and laxly enforced immigration laws. Every year a million plus more immigrants are added to the 40 million immigrants already living in the US.
America can't save the world. It might be possible to save Mexico and Central America. We're not going to figure how without agreeing on what's possible. That's impossible when demagogues on the left, like Kha, and right, Trump, drown out reasonable voices with their "no-borders" and "build-a-fence" diatribes.
