The Flow of Charles Krauthammer’s River
Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post’s conservative columnist, wrote a column today that proposes “First a wall, Then amnesty” on the hot-button topic of immigration. I rather like Charlie’s positions, because he’s thoughtful rather than dogmatic, but I have a problem, a major problem, with walling off Mexico.
Fortunately, the Congress left Washington for their two-week spring break, without passing any legislation. Coincidentally, my access to the Internet went down for six hours this afternoon, forcing me to go on a long dog-walk break without commenting on Charlie's column.
Sometimes a break is what we all need.
If we can strike the fear-basis from all this well meant bickering about immigration policy, it would help. We’re not at our best as a nation when we’re afraid. Interning Japanese-Americans during WWII, setting strikebreakers against working men and women, lynch-mobs and race-riots are all excesses we’ve come to regret in calmer times. And every single one of them was born…