I have a lot to say about this issue, but no time to write about it until at least a couple of weeks from now. For now, I just wanted to ask the leadership at "Immigration Voice" (i.e. We Only Care About Ourselves) - for all your bluster about "we're skilled immigrants and we're more important than those unskilled others"... did you ever stop to think where all the flowers for the garlands you've sent to the Department of Homeland Security's various immigration offices, and all the roses you carried with you on your "rally" yesterday, actually came from?
Did you stop to think for a second that your sending those flowers sends messages of sheer privilege, cluelessness, and irony all in one swift blow? The rhetoric about "illegals" is overblown and not helping you to find allies anywhere - but it's funny how clueless you really are about the other messages you're sending. To equate yourself with so-called Gandhian protest is also ridiculous - your vitriol and animosity towards undocumented migrants who don't have your education is clearly a kind of violence. You may want to check your anger at the door before you get more lofty ideas about your "peaceful protest." You may want to fire your media consultant, too.
Not to mention that the flowers you'd sent in that little misguided action of yours didn't even make it to the offices you were somehow hoping they'd affect, but rather went to soldiers who've returned from the neverending wars in the Middle East? Way to send a message of support to the troops. Maybe you should have gone the extra step, joined some of the anti-war stuff happening in Washington this week, and actually did something that mattered with your advocacy for a change.
Although I have to say - the "it's all about me and let the rest go to the dogs" attitude is perhaps the most American trait you could espouse. So good job getting that message out there clearly.
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