[Vision2020] "Illegals" OK only if they fight in Iraq

[Sue Hovey]

Kai,  Are you planning to run this in the Latah Eagle?  It's particularly 
timely right now and such a powerful piece.

Sue H.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kai Eiselein, editor" <editor at lataheagle.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:51 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] "Illegals" OK only if they fight in Iraq


> Here is an editorial from the April 3 Nogales International. For those you
> who don't know, Nogales, AZ is a border town on the front lines of the
> immigration debate.
> The author, editor Manuel Coppola, is a Nogales native. He graduated from
> high school the year before I did.
>
> By Manuel C. Coppola
>
> Candles of respect
> County investigators were both moved and surprised after being airlifted
> into a remote area of the Tumacacori Mountains Thursday to retrieve 
> skeletal
> remains of a man believed to have crossed illegally from Mexico.
> The officers were in awe that the victim apparently had not been the only
> one to pick such a treacherous route for the trek northward.
> Sheriff Antonio Estrada said that among the signs that the path had been
> well-traveled was the presence of several candle offerings left by others
> for their fallen comrade. "I thought that was quite moving," he said.
> In an age when "illegal aliens" and their plight have been dehumanized for
> political and ideological purposes, it was a stark reminder that after 
> all,
> they are our brothers and sisters regardless what side of the line they 
> come
> from.
> Officers found identification belonging to a man from California, but the
> true identity of the deceased has yet to be determined. Investigators
> believe there was "no foul play" involved in his death.
> We disagree. When a country so rich in natural resources and touted as the
> United States' third-largest trading partner continues to be mired in
> corruption and ineptitude to the point that it won't produce enough jobs 
> and
> educational opportunities for its masses, there is rampant foul play.
> When that same government does not seem the least embarrassed by the fact
> that its country's second-largest income is from money migrants in the
> United States send back to their families there is foul play.
> There is foul play also when the United States declines to use political 
> and
> economic pressures to try to reverse this calamity. Instead, it opts to
> target the symptom rather than the disease by focusing efforts on the
> migrants themselves who in turn use these God-forsaken routes to try to
> avoid detection.
> The bones retrieved on Thursday were the third skeletal remains to be
> discovered in Santa Cruz County since January. They won't be the last - 
> just
> the latest victims of the most-foul example of the cold incompetence of
> federal Mexican politicians as well as failed U.S. diplomacy and 
> immigration
> policies.
> When will it end?
>
>
>
>
> Kai Eiselein, editor
> Latah Eagle
>
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