The informal rules of blogging say that you should only address one issue per posting, but I’m writing about a single issue, and that is the Central American children coming to the U.S.
First, thank you to the Times News. It ran a thought-provoking cartoon that showed children crossing the border. On the southern side was a tattooed gangster; on the American side was an assault rifle wielding American with the label “hate.”
Secondly, I got into it with two women at the Turkey Hill in Gilbert, where we buy our New York Times. They were talking about how illegals were taking our jobs, and I said, “The ones coming across the border now are children. We can’t just shoot them.” The one who was buying lottery tickets said, “Whatever happened to ‘charity begins at home?’” I just walked away.
Finally, Gov. Corbett is worried that the kids coming across the border might be bringing diseases. Sociologists refer to people who are not part of the in-group as “the other,” and one classic manifestation is to accuse them of being “unclean,” full of diseases. I was thinking about suggesting that the kids should be provided with bells, and as they walked, be required to repeat, “Unclean, unclean.” Then it occurred to me that the 9/12ers and Gov. Corbett might take that as a serious suggestion.
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