And a little child shall lead them...In case you missed it, the video above is of First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Mexico's First Lady Margarita Zavala, visiting with a group of Maryland second graders on Wednesday. One kid asked if it was true what her mommy says that Barack Obama's taking everyone away that doesn't have papers.
Cameras rolling, Michelle Obama lamely tried to play the question off, "Yeah, well that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That's exactly right."
Little girl: "But my mom doesn't have papers."
"Yeah, well, we have to work on that, we have to fix that," she told the little one.
Afterward, the First Lady called Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the tyke and had her family deported.
OK, the last part's not true, but it might as well be, what with ICE having a quota of 400,000 deportations to make per year, by hook or crook. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some wily ICE agent looking for the girl's address and her mom's name right now.
By punting on immigration reform, Michelle's hubby Barack has allowed America's primary civil and human rights dilemma to fester.
Meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday, President Obama addressed Calderon's concerns over Arizona's "papers please" law SB 1070, labeling it "a misdirected expression of frustration," and calling into question some of the rhetoric behind the law:
"In the United States of America," said Obama, "no law-abiding person -- be they an American citizen, a legal immigrant, or a visitor or tourist from Mexico -- should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like."
Thing is, talk is cheap, Mr. President. Especially when it seems like half your cabinet is running around these days saying they haven't even bothered to read SB 1070, thus throwing fodder the way of the pro-SB 1070 crowd.
Indeed, if Hispanics and pro-immigration liberals are half as disgusted with you as I am right now, you can look forward to being a one-term fluke in history.