Heard a good one today on NPR. North Carolina has a program to send elected officials to Mexico to help them understand the plight of illegal immigrants. They interviewed the program's director and program graduate that saw the light and changed his position from trying to get rid of illegals to trying to assimilate them. Next they covered the various assimilation efforts. Then they covered the "other side" of the story. "Yet, not everyone is impressed...."
As I'm sure you've already surmised, the "other side" was someone who felt North Carolina wasn't doing enough to cater to illegals. Apparently there is no one in North Carolina who wonders why poverty and corruption in Mexico should dictate local policy in the U.S. No one wonders why their elected officials are putting the interests of foreigners over the interests of the people who elected them.
Leave it to NPR to cover the range of opinion on illegal immigration, from those sympathetic to illegal immigrants all the way to open border advocates.
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