There’s a piece in the September 21 New York Times about waves of legislation beginning in California to expand the social integration of non-citizens, partially in response to the Republican Party being held hostage by its extreme right wing in the matter of comprehensive immigration reform, as in everything else.
The title of this diary is meant ironically, and those who are looking for legal advice to maintain some kind of structural xenophobia should go elsewhere. After all, I am of American Indian descent, and if you get me started on immigration, you may not like where the conversation would end up.
No, I’d like to make a suggestion that is so futile I can’t write it without smiling: issue-by-issue pragmatism. You are on notice that you may have to suppress your giggles below the fleur-de-kos, because I’m proceeding as if the xenophobic elephant were not sitting right over there on the sofa.
