Commentary: Immigration Reform, French-Style
Commentary: Immigration Reform, French-Style
Dr. Morse has some good insiges into this article, but as I’ve said before, the underlying problem is not immigration, but our welfare/warfare state. As her last pargraph shows, she somewhat recognizes this fact when she mentions our entitlement mentality. If you take away the entitlements, you take away the reason to deny 99% of these people entry, then what does the left have to offer? There would be no reason to demonstrate in the streets.
My real fear about immigration is the continual importation of people who will be clients of the welfare state and the political apparatus that supports it. My parish has a lot of Mexicans. I love them. They could save the Catholic Church in America. It is a privilege to worship with them. On the other hand, I can’t stand the thought of Mexicans becoming lifelong clients of the radical left, with their identity politics, their self-righteous anti-Americanism, and their entitlement mentality. Whatever you believe about the balance between controlling the future flow of migrants and humanity to those already here, the introduction of French-style street politics is an ominous development.