Election year is apparently a bad time to be an ‘illegal’

It’s an election year, and none of us is going to get out of 2008 un-pestered and un-pitched. It’s going to be a long year.

On Monday, I saw two press conferences at the Capitol and barely escaped to tell the tale. At one — a presser put on by Gov. Tim Pawlenty to scare illegal immigrants — I was strong-armed by two angry white citizens who told me I must hate white people, which would come as a shock to my mother. At the other presser, organized by supporters of Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, I was thumped on the chest by a good Christian woman and told I should accept Jesus into my heart, and had better do it soon.”*

*From: http://www.startribune.com
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