Aliens & Abramoff

I have to comment somewhat beyond the Michigan scene today...

This week, Jack Abramoff remains free because he is willing to stool-pigeon on Delay and other rule-bending Republicans and the same tainted Congress is demanding that unofficial immigration from SouthoftheBorder be treated as a felony.

To a Native American, nearly all of us are the children of illegal immigrants.

But then, there is the essential idea of America; best expressed on the Statue of Liberty:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

A nation made up of all nations. Until now. Crooked lawmakers make crooked laws. Making someone who comes here to flee tyranny, or just feed their family... making them a felon because they can't wait years or forever, well; at the least its totally hypocritical.

Abramoff? He has to give back almost half of the money he extorted from the Native American tribes, he will serve the minimum possible sentence, and even has to do some community service.

If you are going to be a felon in America, do it as a lobbyist- not a farm worker.