And I guess anyone that agrees with Kaus is a racist too....Fine!

I'm not going there.

I call baloney -- pols and and quasi-pols started calling people bigots to deflect any and all criticism of their pandering to Latinos when they ran out of good public policy reasons for ignoring everyone else's border control and enforcement quality concerns.

Let me just posit what I'm trying to argue here a little differently and hope I have read you incorrect.......

Let's see....

It's not racist to woo the Latino vote by trumping your support of "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" and promising it in short order after you're elected.

But it is racist (or xenophobic, to use a less charged yet equally demeaning word that means pretty much the same thing) to woo numerous and varied other voting blocs by trumping your opposition to it????

Now, I'm only here pretending to be intelligent, but this seems a double standard to me. Tell me why I'm wrong.

How can anyone label words such as "Border Security", "interior & workplace enforcement", while getting a pass on the ones mentioned in my prior post?

Exploiting a segment of people for current and future political power = OK.

Wanting revision and actual enforcement of an 'Anything Goes' immigration system = Racist

Except for the typical can kick that "we can't deport 12-20 million people", there just is no pressing public policy need vital to the national interest that we amnesty 12-20 million people that outweighs the need to carefully and rigorously enforce the laws as they are before and after we "reform" them

I'm not making the argument that we should endeavor to deport 12-20 million people. It's unneccessary.

Still, Kaus and I are waiting for a better reason for legalizing everyone than the notion that we just "can't deport them".

Can you (or anyone for that matter) give us a reason that conforms to our overarching need to control who is allowed to enter and who is allowed to stay?

......there isn't one!

This is especially so, when no one can foretell what will happen in the aftermath, except for the explosion of even more illegal immigrants expecting a future amnesty.

But that calculus works for Democrats who don't believe in consequences, don't preach any to their voters and think they can ride the Latino swing for every forseeable election.

So, none of this is racism on their part-- just xenophobia on everyone else's.

Another thing: Kaus is not a racist -- he has advocated the nice PC position of tough border and interior enforcement while slowly working everyone here illegally into society at-large and citizenry....on several occassions.

His opposition is to the execution of this reform, not the concept.....

I actually have a laundry list of reasons why his position is too soft, none of which have anything to do with race....

sorry for the novel....; >