By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
You’ve got to hand it to this president, he sure knows how to give the white folks the vapors. His very pigmentation makes old Dixiecrats and lifetime GOP’ers — the kind who nod their heads in rhythm with Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaughs’ notions of the “white mans burden” — cranky and itchy to oil their guns, which in turn prompts their wives to clutch their pearls in dismay.
And now their fears that Obama might inappropriately elevate the African-American population at the expense of the Caucasian have been realized by his most recent move, opening an even bigger and more frightening can of worms. He’s elevated — using the ‘prosecutorial discretion” of Homeland Security — the future of close to a million of America’s (mostly brown) children, brought here illegally.
He has changed policy to fold the youngest undocumented aliens into a system of temporary legitimacy that might eventually earn them, should Congressional reform occur in the near future, citizenship.
The president has ended the mandatory deportation of kids, sixteen and under, who may not even remember their birth country, let alone its language. There is no question that these are American kids, even as their bi-lingual culture defines them as first-generation immigrants. They are the product of our struggling school systems and overcrowded barrios, kids unable to get work or driving permits because they can provide no US birth certificate.