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Millions of highly accomplished Chinese immigrants like Chen are desperately needed by American industry and educational institutions. China will not give them up unless we give them something in return. Rice paddies are not being cared for; most workers have left for the cities to manufacture products for the Walmart stores. Millions in the American prison system can harvest China`s rice crop. Let them give us one million software programmers and we will give them two million criminals.
It's hard to know which is worse: one's grief over Chen Guangcheng's fate or the fury over the Obama administration's abandonment of him to that fate.
Chen was already an internationally known human rights activist when he remarkably showed up at the U.S. embassy in Beijing last week seeking refuge. A blind, self-taught lawyer from Shandong province, Chen had been held prisoner for 19 months for the crime of publicizing Chinese atrocities by those enforcing the "one child" policy. Chen had chosen a moonless night (his captors were not blind) to scale several high walls and stumble his way...
'Illegal aliens' is racist, descriminatory, and hateful.
I'd rather call them 'criminal invaders'.