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Chris Cannon and Amnesty
by Phil Windley
I was sent an email alert by someone today that originated with the RightMarch PAC. The email was filled with a lot of the typical vitriolic prose that we’ve come to associate with non-thoughtful, broadcast politics. The email wanted a donation and help in handing out leaflets at the Republican convention this Saturday in an effort to defeat Chris Cannon.
Just so that we’re all clear, I’ve been a supporter of Chris. Overall, I think he’s done a good job and is generally representative of my views.
I’m not necessarily opposed to amnesty under certain conditions. I think that its one way to meet the challenges we clearly have with immigration and that an amnesty program can actually make us safer by reducing the number of illegals that the system has to process, thus allowing more police time to be spent on finding real criminals, without sifting through the people who merely want to make a living.
I don’t want to give illegals driver’s licenses since its an identity document. However, if I get in an accident, I would like the other person to have insurance. Giving amnesty to the illegals who pose no threat to national security and then only allowing legal immigrants to gain a driver’s license seems like common sense to me.
Overall, the amnesty argument gives me chills, because of the xenophobic nature of the arguments. The people who are vociferous in their denunciation of amnesty are the same ones who’ll start in on NAFTA and globalization in the next breath. I happen to be very much a believer in globalization and free trade. They are one of our surest tools for creating a safe world that we’d all like to live in.
Posted by windley on May 5, 2004 12:00 PM
