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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Illegal Immigration...

Gabriel Garnica hits it out of the park:
As a proud Latino and a thankful American citizen, I cannot understand all the fuss about illegal immigration. As spring begins, many of us anticipate the start of a new baseball season and recall a youth spent on the ball field. As corny as it may sound, many of the lessons learned on those fields mirrored lessons in life and, apparently, lessons forgotten by many embroiled in this immigration issue.

Lesson # 1 Play By The Rules of The Ballpark You Are In

Each ballpark we played in had different rules. One field had some trees and if a ball went into those trees it was a homerun. Another field had a lake and anything in there was a double. Baseball fans know that each major league ballpark has its own rules and quirks within the basic rules of the game. This ability to follow local rules within particular general rules is what civil society and the rule of law are all about.
Read the rest of the lessons here.

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