Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status – New York Times
Talk of the marches has been burning up the airwaves on talk radio and cable news networks and has appeared in Internet blogs and conservative publications. Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, described the protests with marchers carrying foreign flags as “ominous” in “their hint of a large, unassimilated population existing outside America’s laws and exhibiting absolutely no sheepishness about it.”
Brit Hume, the news anchor on Fox News, described the marchers, particularly those carrying Mexican flags, as “a repellent spectacle.”
Really, Mr. Hume? Your perception of reality is somewhat different from mine. I find it inspiring and historic.
What about this?
In Houston, where thousands of immigrants chanted “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” as they rallied, Staff Sgt. Jose Soto of the Marines marched in his blue uniform. He said he had fought in Iraq and was in Houston to visit his parents, who came to this country as illegal immigrants.
“I’ve fought for freedom overseas,” said Sergeant Soto, 30, who plans to return to Iraq in July. “Now I’m fighting for freedom here.”
My feelings on the whole immigration issue are mixed and muddled, but I’ll enjoy the irony if conservative nativists discover that by bringing the issue to a head with their over-the-top rhetoric and bills, they find the public (or a large sector of it) pushing matters the other direction.