Navarette’s giving early warning of a very real effort on the part of some Democrats, and he has the general gist of their position. As time goes on, the lies will get bigger. Fortunately, as he points out, there are some good answers. His warning, that the attempt to make english the official language would be interpreted as anti-hispanic, is well-taken, especially because we could then expect to see quotes from Tom Tancredo in a lot of commercials.
We need comprehensive immigration reform. We need a guest worker program. We need to get Congress out of the business of determining quotas for transient workers. For our own sake, we need to continue to provide a safety valve for those nauseating economies to the south of us, and if we are smart, we will find a way to let people come here, work a while, and then go home with some money and the clout to insist on economic reforms at home. We can do all of this without granting citizenship to people who have come here illegally. We can do this with John McCain in office. If Barack Obama is elected, the guest worker program is off the table.
