Christmas wishes

Let us pause in this endless parade of suffering, hypocrisy, evil, malfeasance, incompetence, boondoggles, violence, murder, shame, idiocy, prejudice, propaganda, crimes, political chicanery, woe, horror, rage, filth, abuse, ugliness, guns, smuggling, rape, environmental degradation, racism, hatred and lies to wish everybody a Merry Christmas. Yahoo! There's happy low-watt solar Xmas lights on the border fence! The Minutemen have Santa hats! The Coyotes are putting toys under every poor child's tree! Rudolph is guiding the Border Patrol with his red nose! The KKK and the Nazis are handing out canycanes! The slavers are serving egg nog to their sexual prisoners! The undocumented are bringing frankincese and myrrh! It's the happiest time of year.

If you don't already read Immigration Mondays from La Vista-Luis Alberto Urrea I recommend him to you. My new years resolution will be to read his book, The Devil's Highway: A True Story.

San Francisco's Chicano Latino Convocation

this article shows up in the Cal State Fullerton student newspaper here.

I am posting it because of its positive and student driven approach.

Obama on walls and laws--UPDATED

Obama said, "We're not going to build a 2,700-mile wall on our southern border."http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Obama said the Democratic nominee has to confront anti-immigration sentiment "squarely, to not back off, to affirm that we are a nation of laws and we are a nation of immigrants and those two things are not contradictory."

From: Boston Globe Obama hopes for sane solution

HT: ImmigrationProf Blog

Further information on Obama's positions on immigration can be found .

Newt

I heard a story on the radio today about how Newt Gingrich is not running for president. I was only half listening until I heard Mr. Gingrich suggested that the way to find all the "illegal" immigrants is to have UPS and FedEx mail overnight packages to each person. Then, their computer could tell us where they all are.

"Gingrich: Now one of my policy proposals is that we appropriate about $200 million. We send a package to every person who's here illegally. [Sound of audience laughing] When UPS and FedEx deliver it, we pull it up on our computer screen and we know where everybody is."

Immigrants contribute significantly to economic growth

Max Boot in the Los Angeles Times (Monday, December 3, 2007) says Immigration is a boon, not a curse.

. . . over the past quarter-century, even as illegal immigration has remained high, the U.S. economy has outperformed the rest of the industrialized world. Although a recession may be on the horizon, our economy has been booming since the early 1980s, with consistently low unemployment (currently 4.7%). Per-capita income in the U.S., when adjusted for purchasing power, is $41,399, or the third-highest in the world. Per-capita income after taxes has risen by 12.7% since 2001. We have seen 8.3 million jobs created since August 2003 -- 50 straight months of job growth.

Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to Opinion and the author of "War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World."

Christians at the Border

Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas celebrates his heritage from both Guatemala and the United States is on the faculty of Denver Seminar as professor of Old Testament. His latest book, Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church and the Bible is a biblical-theological orientation to Hispanic immigration. Published by Baker Book House, it will be released in May 2008. You can pre-order it at Amazon: