Murrieta protesters oversimplify a complex immigration crisis

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 8, 2014 | by David Horsey

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The unwillingness of the House of Representatives to discuss immigration reform — let alone actually pass a bill — has left the debate in the hands of a crowd of screaming hotheads in Murrieta, Calif., who show no inclination to let facts get in the way of their paranoia about brown-skinned hordes subverting the America they revere.

The protesters in Murrieta say there’s a simple solution: Send them back! They neither understand the law nor the complexity of the situation. Unsurprisingly, they are being fed their facts by Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing ranters on talk radio and Fox News who portray the whole thing as part of the liberal Democrats’ heinous plan to change the very nature of American society.

This is not a simple situation and there is no simple solution, so nothing will be gained from oversimplification by either bleeding hearts on the left or the stone-hearted shouters on the right.

[kcvl]

Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3.

In 1986, he earned a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Kent in England.

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So that makes him smarter than the rest of us who live in flyover country. /s

[jospehm20]

Seems pretty simple to me.