Legalising Those Here Illegally Is What A Certain Kind Of Conservative Calls Amnesty
For a certain kind of conservative, any attempt to grant a legal status to illegal immigrants is as welcome as salsa on their apple pie. ~Michael Gerson Is there some reason why granting legal status to illegal immigrants should be received any more enthusiastically? Also, salsa-on-apple-pie is just about as clumsy and blunt a metaphor […]
For a certain kind of conservative, any attempt to grant a legal status to illegal immigrants is as welcome as salsa on their apple pie. ~Michael Gerson
Is there some reason why granting legal status to illegal immigrants should be received any more enthusiastically? Also, salsa-on-apple-pie is just about as clumsy and blunt a metaphor as it gets. The only worse way to say what Gerson means to say about these people (“these people don’t like Mexicans”) would be to talk about a tequilla-soaked flag. This guy was a speechwriter? For the President?
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