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| Mercer - Separated From My Child‐And Nobody Cares |
| 2018-07-06 |
| [Townhall] The late Charles Krauthammer was right about the rules of good writing. The use of the first-person pronoun in opinion writing is a cardinal sin. To get a sense of how bad someone's writing is count the number of times he or she deploys the Imperial "I" on the page. Krauthammer considered a single "I" in a piece to be a failure. Use "I" when the passive-form alternative is too clumsy. Or, when the writer herself has earned the right to, because of her relevance to the story. (The story itself, naturally, should have relevance.) The second is my excuse here. As a legal immigrant to the U.S., now an American citizen, I have a right to insert myself into the noisy narrative. As a legal immigrant who was separated from her daughter, herself a legal immigrant, the onus is on me to share a scurrilous story that is part of a pattern: America's immigration policy‐driven as it is by policy makers and enforces‐exalts and privileges those of low moral character. It rewards law-breakers, giving them the courtesy and consideration not given to high-value, legal immigrants. The same U.S. immigration law enforcers who cater so kindly to each illegal immigrant‐the kind that is a drain on the country and has no right to be in the country‐stripped my daughter of her American permanent residency privileges. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 DUI with kids in the car: separated. In the bar, kids in the hot car: separated. Rob a 7-11, kid in a backpack: separated. Breach the border of a sovereign country with kid in tow: separated. TBD crime with child endangerment: separated. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-06 17:38 |