At a time when ethnic, religious and tribal groups are killing each other across the globe, why are concepts of hyphenation, identity politics or mandatory bilingualism in official documents preferable to the exceptional American idea of a melting pot, a common culture and a shared national language?
Everyone finds a lesson in the Republican midterm tsunami.
One message was that so-called comprehensive immigration reform and broad amnesty have little national public support.
Candidates who pandered to identity groups and played the ethnic card lost in most cases.
Voters in liberal Oregon overwhelmingly rejected driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants.
In reaction, President Barack Obama sulked, threatening to quickly push through an unpopular amnesty by executive order.
In an increasingly multiracial society, voters – including many Mexican Americans – see mostly illogic, hypocrisy and chaos in the present relaxed immigration policy of the partisan-minded Obama administration.
Voters assume that liberal-elite advocates of open borders who mock finishing the border fence count on the fences around their own estates – whether Hollywood grandees, the former mayor of Los Angeles or the president of the United States.
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