[migrawatch-public] "A nation belongs to those that work it." Giordano Takes On the US Immigration Reform Debate, among progressive bloggers, he's found only timid silence

 "David B. Briones"  

June 18, 2007
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"From somewhere in a country called América" Al Giordano has been
monitoring the debate north of the border on the Immigration Reform
Bill, now under deliberation in the US Senate and expected to come to
key votes this week and weekend.

He's found right wing talk radio hosts and bloggers in full jihad
mode, now at Civil War with their own Republican Party.

But on the left side of the dial, and among progressive bloggers,
he's found only timid silence.

That silence ends today.

Giordano writes:

"For many progressive bloggers and radio hosts, immigration was never
'their' issue (unlike, say, opposition to the war in Iraq), they thus
have little interest in it, and cannot see their obvious stake in
welcoming millions of new Americans to their land. They apparently
don't monitor the right-wing media as they once did; otherwise the
historic proportions of the immigration debate would have already hit
them in the face and they'd be blogging enthusiastically in favor of
it. Nope, when the history of this titanic battle is said and done,
it will not be the self-described vanguards of 'net roots politics'
that will have saved the United States of America from right wing
domination, but, rather, the same valiant sector that saved it in the
1930s and 40s: the new American immigrants."

And he reminds:

"A nation belongs to those that work it."

Read the whole thing - including some evidence that Rush Limbaugh may
be "taking a dive" for the Bush administration this week - at Narco
News:

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>From somewhere in a country called América,

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