Steyn Takes On Immigration

I actually saw the exchange where Juan Williams accused Mark Steyn of being anti-immigrant. A weird charge to make to someone who is an immigrant himself. In talking about the immigration bill I kept thinking of that exchange. Steyn addresses the moment beautifully in the new column:

Second, the bill's supporters should stop assuming the bad faith of their opponents. On Fox News the other night, I was told by NPR's Juan Williams, "You're anti-immigrant!" Er, actually, I am an immigrant – one of the members of the very very teensy-weensy barely statistically detectable category of "legal immigrant." But perhaps that doesn't count any more. Perhaps, like Colin Powell's blackness, it's insufficiently "authentic." By filing the relevant paperwork with the United States government, I'm not "keepin' it real."

via Alarming News

This too is great point:

Talk about "a fast track to citizenship"! Never mind probationary visas, Z-visas and Green Cards, in the eyes of the Democrat steering "comprehensive immigration reform" through Congress these guys are already "undocumented Americans." Was it simply a slip of the tongue? Or did Senator Reid mean it?

If he did, the very concept of citizenship is dead, and the Senate might as well opt for really comprehensive immigration reform" and declare everyone on the planet a U.S. citizen with backdated Social Security entitlements.

I don't understand the filling of entitlement to American citizenship. Last time I checked being an American citizens was not the same as being the Citizen of the World.