From Deseret News archives:
A vote for human suffering
Whatever reaction those senators were expecting from the illegal immigrant community, the reaction that came has been sorrow.
In California, the country's most popular Spanish-language talk show host Piolin fielded call after call from tearful mothers until he himself choked up. To a person, those mothers were worried about their children, many of whom are full citizens of the United States of America for having been born here.
Those American children have now been condemned to the shadows of society. Perhaps all those dancing on the grave of immigration reform should put some of that high-stepping energy into helping those families.
In Mexico, President Felipe Calderon was melancholy but diplomatic.
"All the United States Senate did was heighten the risk and insecurity on both sides of the border," he told the Mexican press corps.
Clarissa Martinez, the director of a major immigration reform group, told the Spanish-language television audience, "The politicians speak lovely words to us in an election year, but they lack the courage to follow up and act."
Novelist Wallace Stegner once said that the Southern states have produced so many gifted writers because the South feels a need to work through its sins against humanity.
If that's true, perhaps America's skittish senators will themselves end up winning the Nobel Prize not for peace, but for literature.
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