Many Americans think the hot-button immigration issue is mainly one raging in the United States and that it’s only in the United States where passions are aroused. WRONG.
Michael van der Galien writes:
The European Union has just passed a law that is, quite simply, inhumane and utterly hypocritical. The law allows European governments to lock up illegal immigrants for a period of 18 months, after which the illegal alien “will be banned from European territory for five years.”
Read it in its entirety.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.