|
Don't forget, the man's good (non)citizenship did buy him support and a very substantial delay. Not something afforded everyone. He has all kinds of time to plan, meet with attorneys, etc., to make his proper bid for citizenship. He's demonstrated the right qualities in all but one area: illegal entry. Correcting that situation be a very nice cap on his otherwise good record. Politically and honestly, the powers that be would find it difficult to deny this guy a fast track to legal citizenship once he complies in this last area. Set it up, leave, about face and go through the ceremony. Everybody wins.
__________________
There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
|