Twisted Moral Compass

June 9, 2007, "Roadblock" DNR Editorial:  The final argument: 

"A majority of the American people said there is something morally and politically wrong with such an attitude. That majority view may be incomprehensible to Mr. Balz and the rest of the supporters of the immigration bill but, to most people with a moral compass, its crystal clear."

Lets parse this extremist indictment of the American majority and their collective moral compass.  Its again incredible to me to hear this kind of statement from someone who is in a right wing foxhole, barricaded so deeply that all he sees is his fellow foxhole dwellers.  I'm absolutely sure that the DNR Editor truly feels that his view is the view of the majority. Behind his barricade (if he was president, it would be a bubble) his view is the ONLY view. Polling MUST be disregarded in his world, for polls only show that pretty strong majorities of those polled (are these folks Americans too?) disagree with him. The strategy of proclaiming an idealistic, radical, opinion as the view of most Americans is getting tired and shopworn.  How many times will the DNR insist on lying to its readers like this?

Mr. Balz and supporters of the immigration bill are morally wrong?  What moral code is at stake here?  That immigrants are here illegally?  They are breaking the law? Want to get off your high horse now?  Check last weeks editorials concerning your buddy Scooter?  Now tell me that you are really worried about breaking the law.  Ok, I give up.  It IS morally wrong to break the law and enter the United States illegally.  Twelve million or so have already done it because of weaknesses in our immigration system.  These folks are here to make money!  They are here to work in the jobs that were CREATED AND ARE SUSTAINED by them and for them.  Ask the Growers how important the contribution of these immigrants is to our nations economy!  The immigrants, like it or not, are an important part of the nations economic landscape. Even so, OUR IMMIGRATION POLICY DOES NEED TO BE FIXED! (Check the polls .) The opponents of the immigration bill simply cry AMNESTY and do everything they can to defeat the bill.  They seem to accept nothing less than sending all 12 million home to get in line.  Think about that a bit.  Think about the word POGROM.  Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post says,

that any serious attempt to drive them out of the country -- even "temporarily," so they could apply to be let back in -- would be indistinguishable from a pogrom.

Would SWAT teams of immigration officers descend on neighborhoods and go door to door? Would they snatch children out of schools? Where would they take these people? To special camps? To the nearest border?"

Obviously to solve the moral problem of immigrants breaking the law, a moral form of justice must also be found.  To simply cry AMNESTY and ILLEGAL is foolish obfuscation. It is morally reprehensible to advocate the mass expulsion of TWELVE MILLION PEOPLE.  We need to SOLVE this problem, not shout hysterically from behind a bunker wall.

The immigration bill as offered by the elites is a cobbled together compromise package that pretty accurately reflected the huge gulf between the two sides of the debate.  How can any Centrist coalition hold when the two extreme positions are so stubbornly idealistic that they can't work together?  My challenge to all the ideologues out there who cry and whine about the immigration problem is simply this:  SOLVE IT!