maxparrish
05-29-2007, 08:56 AM
Peggy Noonan, a conservative woman of my generation I have long admired, offers this damn good common sense:
But it's not so complex. The past quarter-century an unprecedented wave of illegal immigrants has crossed our borders. The flood is so great that no one--no one--can see or fully imagine all the many implications, all the country-changing facts of it. No one knows exactly what uncontrolled immigration is doing and will do to our country.
So what should we do?
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We should stop, slow down and absorb. We should sit and settle. We should do what you do after eating an eight-course meal. We should digest what we've eaten.
We should close our borders. We should do whatever it takes to close them tight and solid. Will that take the Army? Then send the Army. Does it mean building a wall? Then build a wall, but the wall must have doors, which can be opened a little or a lot down the road once we know where we are. Should all legal immigration stop? No. We should make a list of what our nation needs, such as engineers and nurses, and then admit a lot of engineers and nurses. We should take in what we need to survive and flourish.
Refreshing, is it not? Compared to Gerson, former Bush II Speech writer that called fellow conservatives bigots for opposing this bill, Noonan's view is that of any decent conservative or American. If you read full artilcle her admiration of illegals as workers is effusive and (to my mind) quite right. But it does not cloud her judgement...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
But it's not so complex. The past quarter-century an unprecedented wave of illegal immigrants has crossed our borders. The flood is so great that no one--no one--can see or fully imagine all the many implications, all the country-changing facts of it. No one knows exactly what uncontrolled immigration is doing and will do to our country.
So what should we do?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/images/storyend_dingbat.gif
We should stop, slow down and absorb. We should sit and settle. We should do what you do after eating an eight-course meal. We should digest what we've eaten.
We should close our borders. We should do whatever it takes to close them tight and solid. Will that take the Army? Then send the Army. Does it mean building a wall? Then build a wall, but the wall must have doors, which can be opened a little or a lot down the road once we know where we are. Should all legal immigration stop? No. We should make a list of what our nation needs, such as engineers and nurses, and then admit a lot of engineers and nurses. We should take in what we need to survive and flourish.
Refreshing, is it not? Compared to Gerson, former Bush II Speech writer that called fellow conservatives bigots for opposing this bill, Noonan's view is that of any decent conservative or American. If you read full artilcle her admiration of illegals as workers is effusive and (to my mind) quite right. But it does not cloud her judgement...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/