Too many Americans no longer see immigration as a positive ingredient in our national melting pot. Rather, it is being posited as a noxious weed thrown into a politically toxic stew. To use this tragic accident as justification for Virginia to join Arizona in seeking to do what the federal government is constitutionally charged to do, i.e., secure our national borders and direct our foreign policy, is grossly misguided, though sadly in character with our nation’s and Virginia’s historical mistreatment of our fellow human beings.Click here to read the entire piece, "Justification Without Justice," written by Shaun Kenney and Claire Guthrie Gastañaga.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Confusing justification with justice
This Wednesday the Back Page of STYLE Weekly deals with immigration, liberty and morality.
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