03/30/2006
Mark Steyn has a point here, in his interview with Hugh Hewitt.[transcript, MP3 ] As a legal immigrant, he’s not only in the minority, since there are more illegals than legals, but he’s at certain legal disadvantages. I bet he has a driver’s license and insurance, too.Mark Steyn : And if you talk to legal immigrants, they're the ones who are the most resentful of this whole illegal business, because we're the ones, we pay the huge fees to immigration lawyers, we filled in all the paperwork. I've stood in line at these dreary government offices to get these stupid cards and these stupid government numbers, to go through the whole process officially. And everyone whose done that is resentful to the idea that somehow if you just make it across the border, and you get here, you can stay here, and half the state governments in this country will do what they can to make your situation as painless as possible, and the public schools … I'll give you a small example of schools. If you're a legal immigrant, and you enroll your children in a local grade school, they want to know whether they've had all the shots, you know, for this and that.HH: Sure. Vaccinations.
Mark Steyn : If you're a legal immigrant, you have to then, you're faced with then getting the documentation out of whatever country you happen to have come from. And sometimes, that can be difficult, because they give them different things at different times, and the school nurse will give you a lot of harrassment. If you actually just say okay, scrub that, they're not legal immigrants, I want them redesignated as illegal immigrants, then you won’t be asked for any paperwork. It’s a lot easier. The problem at the moment is that it’s a rational decision, coming into this country, to be an illegal immigrant. And that is the problem.
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