March 16, 2002
You won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane Ken Layne approves of the bill, passed by the House and now heading to the Senate, that would temporarily allow several thousand illegal immigrants to apply for legal status without returning to their home countries first.
This is a country of immigrants. And the United States, especially the Southwest, has long relied on illegal immigrants from the south to work the fields and make the beds and bus the tables. It’s hypocritical to depend on a population to do our dirty work and then throw ‘em back to Mexico.Woody Guthrie would have agreed. [10:13 AM]
Hard-Hitting Moderator: Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
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