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March 19, 2007
You Can Sense a Shift in Mood When…
It is never a good idea to draw conclusions from anecdotal evidence, so the following is not a conclusion, but merely an observation.
The coalition of left-leaning churches and religious groups that gave rise to the Central American sanctuary movement in the 1980s is attempting to reconstitute itself. Alarmed by the recent audacity of the Bush Administration to have the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency actually take enforcement semi-seriously, many of these groups are gearing up to provide sanctuary to illegal aliens, while stepping up efforts to win them an all encompassing amnesty.
The Chicago church that has been harboring Elvira Arellano, a recidivist illegal alien who was caught working at O'Hare Airport using bogus documents, seems to have inspired a lot of liberation theologians - nowhere more so than in Seattle. In response to recent ICE raids of a few local businesses that resulted in illegal aliens actually being arrested and held for possible deportation, the caffeinated do-gooders of the Pacific Northwest have decided that they must do God's work and shield illegal aliens from the law.
There are few cities in the U.S. more PC than Seattle. As one moves still further up the PC pyramid, NPR listeners in Seattle are likely to be found near the pinnacle (as Seattle lacks a Pacifica Radio affiliate to serve the listening needs of those for whom Hugo Chavez is a political role model). So it came as something of an interesting revelation that in appearing on panel discussion (three guests in favor of sanctuary and amnesty, versus yours truly) on KUOW radio that the ratio of listener calls and emails was precisely the reverse.
When the sanctuary and amnesty crowd can't even muster much enthusiasm from an NPR audience in Seattle, how is it going play in Berkeley? Okay, well how about Peoria?
Posted on at March 19, 2007 04:35 PM