Jason: As to Mexicans,…
As to Mexicans, I would let nearly all of them enter who wished.
Well, that’s mighty white of you.
Could you explain more carefully what specific immigrants have violated your rights in concrete, actionable cases, and what you consider to be a proportional response to those violations of rights? (Do you think, for example, that refusing to take a damned government-sponsored civics class is an actionable violation of your rights? Or that arrest, confinement, and exile is a proportional response to it?)
And as to civics lessons, how do you suppose that a liberal society either takes root or endures if its population does not understand or has contempt for liberal ideas?
Kennedy’s point isn’t that liberal ideas are unnecessary or irrelevant. It’s that whatever their merits may be, you haven’t got the right to force people to take classes on liberalism.
Anticopyright.