Chavez and Ashcroft

[Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer]

>Linda Chavez as unwitting acolyte of the sanctuary movement?  Let's see now 
>- you "allow" someone who is at risk of deportation to stay in your house.  
>Out of "gratitude" she cleans your house for you.  Out of "charity" you 
>occasionally throw her a few bucks.  Compassion enabling hyperexploitation 
>in my book.


>Michael McIntyre

Well, I wasn't being that literal-minded. I just found it interesting that
Chavez took the line that she was protecting the cleaning woman from the
"turmoil" in Guatemala. I don't believe her motives were so pure, but it
would be a nice rhetorical/political trick to take Chavez at her word, then
ask her what she thought of the sanctuary movement. I hoped David Corn would
say something along these lines last night on O'Reilly's show on Fox; but he
could barely get a word out, then was dismissed.

DP