You can’t blame the girl; she’s only a second grader.
Have you heard it yet? The question a Latino girl asked First Lady Michelle Obama at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Montgomery County?
Oh, this one’s too rich. I read the story on the Web site www.blackamericaweb.com. (Full disclosure: I do a weekly column for this Web site as well as for the Washington Examiner.) The story ran May 20 with the headline “Latino Girl Questions First Lady About ‘Papers.’ ” Read it, and you’ll get some idea of why Maryland is the leading sanctuary state in the nation, and why Montgomery County is America’s leading sanctuary subdivision.
“While President Barack Obama was meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the White House Wednesday,” wrote BlackAmericaWeb.com’s Michael Cottman, “First Lady Michelle Obama was getting an earful about immigration reform from an inquisitive soft-spoken interrogator — a second-grade student.”
Some good, old-fashioned, down-home opinionating is in order here. Obama wasn’t “meeting” with Calderon; he was “getting chumped” by Calderon on the matter of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law and America’s immigration policy in general, in much the same fashion that former Mexican President Vicente Fox chumped former President George W. Bush on the matter of immigration. But back to the story:
“My mom said Barack Obama is taking everybody that doesn’t have papers. But my mom doesn’t have papers.”
So there you have it: Kid snitches on her own mom by saying, in essence, that mom is an illegal immigrant happily residing in Montgomery County with a child attending public school on the Maryland taxpayers’ dime. But does the mom have anything to worry about, like being deported?
Not in Maryland, she doesn’t. And it doesn’t even matter how misinformed the mom was, either. It’s no wonder she — and her daughter — are woefully misinformed about the Arizona law. Critics of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 have been ignorantly ranting about how racist the law is without even having read the darned thing. And here is what Ms. Obama’s husband thinks of it:
“[The law] has the potential of being applied in a discriminatory fashion. The judgments that are going to be made in applying this law are troublesome.”
It occurs to more discerning observers that any law “has the potential of being applied in a discriminatory fashion.” Using our president’s tortured logic, all laws are bad because enforcers could potentially use them to discriminate. That’s a shocking statement for the nation’s chief executive to make, but maybe President Obama can’t think straight when he’s groveling before Mexican heads of state and America’s open borders crowd.
Attorney General Eric Holder fared no better in his assessment of the Arizona law. On the ABC News show “This Week,” Holder said, “We could potentially get on a slippery slope where people will be picked on because of how they look as opposed to what they have done.”
Holder is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. It’s his job, by definition, to “pick on” those who break the law. Holder is another one of those hysteria mongers who hasn’t read Arizona’s law, according to the Fox News Web site.
That young Latina lass and her mom are worried about the wrong thing. They fret that the bad Yanks will come fetch them both and send them back to whatever country the mom hails from.
What they should really be concerned about is staying in a country run by misinformed officials like Obama and Holder.
Examiner columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.
