Jeneane Sessum (thanks Mike) talks about the present immigration chaos in America. Let me assure Jeneane that America isn’t the only country going after immigrants. France is, too. They have even made a law for it, referred to in the street as l’immigration jetable, or disposable immigration, and “l’immigration choisie” in the halls of power. Use them, abuse them, but at election time tell ‘em to go back “home” since they are occupying jobs that real nationals could be holding.

Jeneane’s post asks a basic question: Did the Red Indian require the arriving European masses to assimilate or integrate or learn the language of the Cherokee? She says

your ancestors weren’t the first ones here and no one saw their asses assimilating to the customs and language of the Cherokee; and number two, a very large and distinct portion of America’s ancestry is made up of people who were bought, chained, flogged, and shipped here, where they were sold, chained, and put to work to build this-land-is-your-land without pay in slavery. Assimilate THAT.
In France, the new bill tabled by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy went through parliament easily. Piece o’ cake. The new law comes at a time when France is examining itself for different uncool phenomena, like discrimination at the workplace. The law stipulates that,
:: Only the qualified get “skills and talents” residency permit,
:: Foreigners only allowed in to work, not live off benefits,
:: Foreign spouses to wait longer for residence cards,
:: Migrants must agree to learn French,
:: Migrants must sign ‘contract’ respecting French way of life,
:: Scraps law on workers getting citizenship after 10 years,
http://news.bbc.co.uk
So I feel like saying Madeleine Albright, Isaac Asimov, Charles Atlas, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Graham Bell, Irving Berlin, Andrew Carnegie, Charlie Chaplin, Claudette Colbert, Albert Einstein, Gloria Estefan, Patrick Ewing, Michael J. Fox, Greta Garbo, Andy Garcia, Marcus Garvey, Bob Hope, Al Jolson, Henry Kissinger, Ivan Lendl, Martina Navratilova, Mike Nichols, Hakeem Olajuwon, I.M. Pei, Sydney Poitier, John Secada, Levi Strauss, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Van Halen, Elie Wiesel, for America, and Guillaume Appollinaire, Charles Aznavour, Josephine Baker, Michel Berger, Patrick Bruel, Manu Chao, Georges Charpak, Michel Coluccci, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Dalida (Yolande Christina Gigliotti), Joe Dassin, Marcel Desailly (Odonkey Abbey), Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Johnny Halliday, Marie-Antoinette, Rethabile Masilo (yes, me), Tony Parker, Mary Pierce, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tintin, Sylvie Vartan, Patrick Vieira, Zinedine Zidane (زين الدين زيدان or our very own Zizou who is a kind and talented fellow who promotes racial and religious tolerance) for France. Voila.