Fiddling While Rome Burns?

Bush, Reid/Pelosi Congress out-to-lunch on immigration
John Dendahl

This essay proceeds from the writer’s belief that the greatest privilege any person can enjoy is citizenship in the United States of America. Second is holding a Green Card, the visa signifying legal permanent residency. The third greatest privilege — whatever it is — falls far below second.

Surely there isn’t another nation enjoying the long lines of other nations’ citizens striving to emigrate here. Many, however, don’t wait in line. Apparently they don’t need to; they just walk in and make themselves at home.

As one watches U.S. political leadership wrangle over illegal migration, classical American philosopher George Santayana comes to mind with, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.â€