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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 723713" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/03/bigotry-label-for-thee-but-not-for-me/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/03/bigotry-label-for-thee-but-not-for-me/</a><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/opinion/commentary" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/opinion/commentary</a>STEYN: Bigotry label for thee,&nbsp; not meBy <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/mark-steyn/" target="_blank">Mark Steyn</a>&nbsp;As I write, I have my papers on me - and not just because I&#039;m in&nbsp; Arizona. I&#039;m an immigrant, and it is a condition of my admission to this&nbsp; great land that I carry documentary proof of my residency status with&nbsp; me at all times and be prepared to produce it to law enforcement&nbsp; officials, whether on a business trip to Tucson or taking a 20-minute&nbsp; stroll in the woods back at my pad in New Hampshire. &nbsp;Who would impose such an outrageous Nazi fascist discriminatory law? &nbsp;Er, well, that would be Franklin D. Roosevelt. &nbsp;That&#039;s Arizona. To the coastal commentariat, &quot;undocumented immigrants&quot;&nbsp; are the people who mow your lawn while you&#039;re at work and clean your&nbsp; office while you&#039;re at home. (That, for the benefit of The New York&nbsp; Times&#039; Linda Greenhouse, is the real apartheid: the acceptance of a&nbsp; permanent &quot;undocumented&quot; servant class by far too many &quot;documented&quot;&nbsp; Americans who assuage their guilt by pathetic sentimentalization of&nbsp; immigration.) But in border states, illegal immigration is life and&nbsp; death. I spoke to a lady this week who has a camp of illegals on the&nbsp; edge of her land. She lies awake at night, fearful for her children and&nbsp; alert to strange noises in the yard. &nbsp;President Obama, shooting from his lip, attacked the new law as an&nbsp; offense against &quot;fairness.&quot; Where&#039;s the fairness for this woman&#039;s&nbsp; family? Because her home is in Arizona rather than Hyde Park, Chicago,&nbsp; she&#039;s just supposed to get used to living under siege?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 723713, member: 12952"] [url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/03/bigotry-label-for-thee-but-not-for-me/[/url] [URL="http://www.washingtontimes.com/opinion/commentary"][/URL][B]STEYN: Bigotry label for thee, not me[/B] By [URL="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/mark-steyn/"]Mark Steyn[/URL] As I write, I have my papers on me - and not just because I'm in Arizona. I'm an immigrant, and it is a condition of my admission to this great land that I carry documentary proof of my residency status with me at all times and be prepared to produce it to law enforcement officials, whether on a business trip to Tucson or taking a 20-minute stroll in the woods back at my pad in New Hampshire. Who would impose such an outrageous Nazi fascist discriminatory law? Er, well, that would be Franklin D. Roosevelt. That's Arizona. To the coastal commentariat, "undocumented immigrants" are the people who mow your lawn while you're at work and clean your office while you're at home. (That, for the benefit of The New York Times' Linda Greenhouse, is the real apartheid: the acceptance of a permanent "undocumented" servant class by far too many "documented" Americans who assuage their guilt by pathetic sentimentalization of immigration.) But in border states, illegal immigration is life and death. I spoke to a lady this week who has a camp of illegals on the edge of her land. She lies awake at night, fearful for her children and alert to strange noises in the yard. President Obama, shooting from his lip, attacked the new law as an offense against "fairness." Where's the fairness for this woman's family? Because her home is in Arizona rather than Hyde Park, Chicago, she's just supposed to get used to living under siege? [/QUOTE]

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