During the final days of debate on the Senate’s Immigration Surrender Bill, polls were showing that over 75% of the US public was opposed to what amounted to amnesty.
The Seattle Times, on the other hand, just cannot seem to believe such things and proceeds to publish eight Letters to the Editor in their Sunday edition, only two of which (aka: 25% – aka: the “opposite” of 75%) are not pro-amnesty.
The first one reads
How ironic that Wednesday we celebrated a revolution for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” while Tuesday’s front page records the cruel persecution and deportation of people who came to this country seeking security and economic survival. Something is wrong with this picture!
The U.S. and its free-trade policies have sucked the life out of the economies to the south, forcing thousands of people to come here to survive. Their labor keeps the U.S. afloat.
Yet the government treats them like criminals, uproots them after decades in this country, and breaks up families without even any time for them to arrange for the welfare of their children.
The so-called immigration “reform” measure, which would have turned immigrants into indentured servants, died a well-deserved death. What’s needed is simple and cheap: Stop the militarization and walls between the U.S. and Mexico and grant amnesty for all.
Helen Gilbert, Seattle
You can click the above link for the rest of the vomit inducing surrender.
You “live” in Seattle and you sound like you are suprised at this, heh. You were probably more suprised that they printed any “against” letters at all.