The Brown Peril
Which has replaced the following previous perils: yellow, red, German, Irish, Catholic, and Jewish...
Michael Gerson - Letting Fear Rule - washingtonpost.com
In 1882, Congress passed and President Chester Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Today we don't name laws as bluntly as we used to. But anti-immigrant sentiments are very much alive, this time expressed in opposition to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007.Technorati Tags: immigration, illegals, Tancredo, nativist, racists
For a certain kind of conservative, any attempt to grant a legal status to illegal immigrants is as welcome as salsa on their apple pie. One conservative commentator claims that the law is "going to erase America" -- an ambition even beyond Ted Kennedy's considerable powers. Another laments that "white America is in flight" -- and presumably not just to Jackson Hole or Nantucket for the summer.
