I am a 3rd
generation American. I believe that we
need to have an intelligent, practical and properly enforced immigration
policy. I believe that those who wish to
latch onto the American Dream need to follow the rules, just as my grandparents
did. And I believe that we need to send away,
and keep away, those who have come here but who have not played by the rules.
It is my
policy to not make inquiry of my students regarding such personal matters as
religion, ethnicity, gender preference, or immigration status, effectively a
very effective "Don't Ask - Don't Tell policy. Nevertheless, I do become cognizant of such
particulars quite often. This, of
course, gives rise to an inherent conflict when it comes to having a student whose
presence in these United States was not accomplished according to the rules. The way I resolve that conflict is to embrace
the fiction that the law enforcement personnel are doing their jobs, thereby
allowing me to ignore the immigration status matters and conduct an unimpeded
professor-student relationship. My
students need to be able to approach me freely if they are to truly learn the
subjects I teach. Unless a student whom
I know to be here illegally commits some sort of violence or larceny or other
infraction of the safety and security of real Americans, I do not get involved
in the immigration issues.
Yesterday,
I was giving a presentation to a group of my fellow faculty members. None of my students (nor anyone else's
students) were present. During the
presentation, I had occasion to mention that the exemptions from the insurance requirements
of this Barack Hussein ObamaCare naufragio include "jailbirds and illegal
aliens."
Three in
the room, myself included, espoused what is commonly called the right-wing
sentiment. The remaining two dozen or so
were approximately equally divided between the leftists and the überleftists. One of the more vocal (and more über) of the überleftists
took great umbrage at my use of the term "illegal alien." She indignantly interrupted my
presentation: "They are NOT
"illegal aliens! They are undocumented
immigrants!"
I don't
know how I was able to muster up the presence of mind for my immediate
response: "Janetta, if they were
legal then there would be documentation!"
Some of the
leftists gave me a look of grudging approval.
Political leanings notwithstanding, Janetta had been grating on them,
and they were happy to see her get a comeuppance.
After the
meeting, one of the more rational of the leftists, who works with preparing female
prison inmates for release and
reintegration into society, came up to me and said, "I wish that
you wouldn't refer to prison inmates as 'jailbirds.'"
Seems that
the Political Correctness Police are on patrol!
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Illegal Aliens, Obamacare, Political Correctness
1 Comments:
At 16 November, 2013 19:31, Murphy's Law said…
Heck, I can remember back when I had one of my first "real" jobs as a corrections officer in a priosn. we were not allowd to call the prisoners "convicts" because it might hurt their little feelings. we were told from day #1 that they were "correctional clients". This is what happens when you hire all of the upper-level management from the social service field.
Yeah, whatever. "Hey Convict! You seem to have a problem staying out of my sight today so grab a mop and do the floor."
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