Upping His Game.

"What About American Workers Who Are Unemployed While You Import Foreigners?"

If I were working for President Obama, I'd be honest with him.  No sense in flattering the boss if it means ultimately the team loses, even if you're cashing in big now being paid for expertise...

Neil Munro's question might have been ill-timed, but it's surely a question on the minds of many outside the Beltway.  If the president is undertaking this policy move as yet another campaign calculation to win votes from a special interest group, he should be prepared to defend his policy.  Stay, take and answer questions.

He might have responded that these affected "children" are not imported foreigners, but essentially undocumented citizens.  He might have spent a moment or two with Munro -- they tell me this president is a smart man, can think on his feet, and has superior debate skills, so show me, don't tell me -- and effectively had a  conversation with the American people.  Why this move now?  Why in a down economy?  Is it simply a desperate move to counter Marco Rubio's appeal to conservative Hispanic Republicans?

The pundits will waste days debating whether Munro was rude or not.  What gets lost is ... who will pay for this policy?  Working class (especially white) young people, shoved to the back of the bus once again to make room for liberals preferred picks?  Face it:  a young illegal immigrant with a sad story to tell gets diversity points in hiring and college admissions similar to black students, whether their parents are working class, middle or even with professional-class privileges.

What of the white, ethnic (legal) first-generation immmigrant offspring?  They are paying, again and again, to support these diversity preferences.  By playing by the rules, by sacrificing for their own American dreams, paying for the sins of native slaveholders whose own white, professional offspring are largely segregated in their worlds, untouched by these remedial policy actions that deny working-class whites of merit today (even white ethnic immigrants*) to set aside spots for sad stories. 

Neil Munro asked a  good question.  I suspect, somewhere out there, there's a  very good answer to his question.  It would probably take someone experienced in reality to help the president craft an honest response.  Instead, he dictated and quickly retreated, leaving others to do the explaining.  There seems to be an awful lot of that type of leadership coming out of Washington lately, to the country's detriment.  Natives and newcomers alike...

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* We're all lumped into that "white privilege" thing, it seems.