is that watch “hot” or just undocumented?
…about five years or so back, I started making references in columns to ”fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community.” But from the lame Steyn joke of yesteryear to the reality of tomorrow is a mere hop and a skip. A few days ago, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, declared: ”This week we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong.”
Talk about ”a fast track to citizenship”! Never mind probationary visas, Z-visas and green cards, in the eyes of the Democrat steering ”comprehensive immigration reform” through Congress, these guys are already ”undocumented Americans.” Was it simply a slip of the tongue? (Speaking of which, I thought thanks to George W. Bush we had ”the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.” When did it get ‘’strong”?) Or did Sen. Reid mean it?
If he did, the very concept of citizenship is dead, and the Senate might as well opt for ”really comprehensive immigration reform” and declare everyone on the planet a U.S. citizen with backdated Social Security entitlements. As Le Monde’s famous headline of Sept. 12, 2001, put it, ”Nous sommes tous Americains.” Literally.