One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'
I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.
Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.
It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.
