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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Navarrette: Easy - but wrong - to blame Mexico for immigration mess

RUBEN NAVARETTE JR.
Published: 05.10.2006

In foreign policy, you have the misguided "blame America first" crowd. And in the immigration debate, there is the equally misguided equivalent: the "blame Mexico first" crowd.

For the blame-Mexico bunch, the world is a delightfully simple place. To listen to them, we Americans were just sitting in the backyard, sipping lemonade and minding our own business, when all of a sudden we noticed that our country was being invaded by poor, uneducated Mexican immigrants.

And it's all Mexico's fault. Not the companies who hire illegal immigrants, or the politicians who take contributions from companies that hire illegal immigrants or Americans who lost their work ethic so that companies feel they have little choice but to hire illegal immigrants.

Putting the blame there would require Americans to do something that, these days, they are loath to do: take responsibility. That's one of the great things about living in America: No matter what "it" is, it is never our fault. Why should we expect the issue of illegal immigration to be any different?

posted by missionaryman | 8:55 AM

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