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link Heroic Giffords Intern Could Be Asked For Papers Under Arizona Immigration Law.
Apologies in advance for referring to a Huffington Post article, but the inanity of this piece was just too glaring to ignore. Yes, that Huffington Post, where the truth is merely an inconvenience. Even before the smoke clears on the shooting rampage in Arizona, this writer of the linked article feels compelled to spin the story with a political angle.
One of the heros in the aftermath of the shooting was congresswoman Giffords’ aide, Daniel Hernandez, who heroically stemmed the bleeding from the congresswoman after she had been shot. Now, the insightful writer muses that Mr. Hernandez may be required to prove he is not an illegal immigrant in accordance with a proposed Arizona law.
So what? If you buy booze in a liquor store, you have to prove that you are of age. If you want to go to country club and have drinks there, you are expected to provide proof of membership. If you want to drive a car, you need a license. If you want to be a resident of the state of Arizona, you need to have proof of citizenship. But in none of the above cases would exclusion from those groups prevent someone from acting as any humane person would in an emergency situation such as the one that transpired in Tuscon.
That is a question of morality, not of legality. Is the author implying that illegal immigrants would be less likely to save people from a burning building because their immigration status may be at stake? While this is possible, I think this implies a cynicism on the morality of the people who may find themselves in that predicament bordering on insulting. Only the rabid left would be thinking of political ramifications in a life and death circumstance. Would someone like Hernandez be less inclined to help because he owed back taxes? Or was tardy in child support payments? Most rational people are not concerned with left or right politics in making day to day life decisions. That prism of life is left to the underemployed nutbars who pose as journalists and pundits.
There’s an old joke in the financial business that goes; what’s the difference between a bond and a bond trader? Answer, a bond matures. I wouldn’t bet that on Huffington Post scribes. Heaven help people like this writer if the world actually operated as cynicially as she depicts. Imagine if she were ever to be wheeled into a “conservative” hospital during an emergency and the doctors asked, ” okay, who was the republican vice presidential candidate in 1963, we only need initials?”. That’ll learn her.