Shaun Kenney, former Communications Director for the State GOP, has written an important piece in Bearing Drift contesting Corey Stewart’s position that Virginia should adopt an Arizona-like immigration policy.
The money quote is this:
It would be a shame if, barely two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the best hope for freedom chose to turn the guns outward and build one of its own along the southern border of our nation.
Kenney’s position is that Stewart’s stance betrays the conservative embrace of the free market and may be a long-term political debacle for the GOP with Catholic voters.
I’m not sure that Kenney’s piece will win him a lot of new friends, but it’s serious, politically insightful, and provocative at the same time.
Check it out.
From today’s NY Times:
“Nebraska Town Votes to Banish Illegal Immigrants
By MONICA DAVEY
CHICAGO — Residents of a small city in eastern Nebraska voted Monday to banish illegal immigrants from jobs and rental homes, defying an earlier decision by the city’s leaders and setting off what is all but certain to be a costly and closely watched legal challenge.
In Fremont , a meat-packing town of about 25,000 people, unofficial results from The Associated Press late Monday showed that 57 percent of voters approved a referendum barring landlords from renting to those in the country illegally, requiring renters to provide information to the police and to obtain city occupancy licenses, and obliging city businesses to use a federal database to check for illegal immigrants.”
Just so we can keep up with who’s legal and who’s not, why not require illegals to wear a badge of some sort, maybe a little piece of barbed wire, sort of a wetback version of that little ‘Jude’ star pinned to their clothing? BKD
The Catholic vote is not homogeneous in the way it may have been decades ago but many Catholics respect the teaching of the Church, on a fair price for goods and services (not just what a given market will bear), on capital punishment (Governor Kaine was personally opposed to it, though he implemented the law), on just wars (not all are).