GOP: Proudly xenophobic - Salon.com
This plan to portray all immigrants as evildoers is going to backfire on the GOP big time. They're shooting themselves in the foot.
The xenophobia has already begun.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today urged him to reconsider immigration legislation because of the bombings in Boston. The facts emerging in the Boston Marathon bombing have exposed a weakness in our current system, Paul writes. If we dont use this debate as an opportunity to fix flaws in our current system, flaws made even more evident last week, then we will not be doing our jobs.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior Republican senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is responsible for an immigration reform bill, is using much the same language suggesting that the investigation of two alleged Boston attackers will help shed light on the weaknesses of our system.
Can we just get a grip? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a naturalized American citizen. He came to the United States when he was nine years old. He attended the public schools of Cambridge, Massachusetts, not far from where I lived.
This plan to portray all immigrants as evildoers is going to backfire on the GOP big time. They're shooting themselves in the foot.