Thursday 29 November 2007
The approach of immigration authorities so far to the whole values question — and reflective, I think, of the xenophobia underlying so much current law — has been to erect as many obstacles as possible to citizenship, as though the act of clearing those hurdles somehow proves your worthiness to be an American. But that’s really irrational at its base. Rather than making it tougher for people to become Americans, we ought mostly to be working to ensure that those core, democratic American values are being transmitted to the people who do want to become American. David Neiwert ☀
