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...were happily surprised to see a Harvard protest transpire in the proper context, at least at first. The students protested on the street in front of the Kennedy School, maintaining a stubborn yet dignified position to argue with Senator Simpson. Dissension to speakers at the forum is wholly positive when presented in such a manner. Unfortunately, however, when the Simpson protest moved to the inside of the K-School (as happened with the pro-life sign hangers at Senator Arlen Specter's (R-Pen.) speech last spring and with the walkout at Charles Murray's bell curve harangue last fall...
...only non-immigrant Americans are those whose ancestors were driven away by the settlers of the New World. By limiting immigration, Simpson is denying his own past and limiting the country's future. America will suffer politically, economically and socially from the petrification which would result from the elimination of immigration. The principles of openness and freedom which guided our founding fathers must be maintained if this experiment in multicultural democracy is to be preserved in a vigorous manner. Furthermore, Simpson's legislation would also create a second-class citizenship status in America by denying legal immigrants who have become...
...citizen. To do so is to threaten the rational political senses embodied by this state. We do not desire a "country without borders," as a matter of practicality; those who do should act for change within the system instead of attempting to subvert it. But leaders like Sen. Simpson have a responsibility to challenge the forces of nativism and xenophobia...
...recent rightward shift of the political spectrum does necessitate action on the part of the federal government. Sen. Simpson argues, "People across the land feel frustrated about the immigration situation. Unless we reform legislation, the American dream will turn into the American nightmare." To a certain extent, the Senator is correct in his prediction...
...American dream. In their pamphlets and petitions, they call on the Congress to separate the issues of legal and illegal immigration for the purposes of saving legal immigration. This is a practical aim and should be pursued by politicians interested in ideas more than lip service. The students label Simpson's proposal S. 1394 and his House-cohort Representative Lamar Smith's H.R. 2202 as "outrageous." They might better be termed "un-American." In this way, students could more ably fight a patriotic battle for the immigrant soul of this country...