An Immigration Story for A Quiet Weekend

A commentary piece in the Denver Post (here) tells the travails of a U.S. citizen seeking to bring his noncitizen wife into the United States from Canadaa.  Most revealing to me about the ability to engage in a polite discussion of immigration are the comments to the piece, which are printed immediately after the commentary.  One example : 

Readers need less illegal alien sob stories and more illegal ailens detained and deported. But, I should have guessed another Diane Carman’s crying towel. whaaa whaaa

Similarly, a Sonoma County, California newspaper ran a story about immigrant rights and minority groups calling on local sheriff deputies to stop cooperating with the federal government in enforcinmn immigration law.  The comments are revealing about the (un)civility of the immigration debate.

KJ