xenophobia

... oh, by the way, we're deporting your wife while you're away.

That's what the government is telling Navy helicopter repairman Eduardo Gonzalez might happen while he is in Iraq. Worse? Eduardo, Jr., Gonzalez's son, is a citizen. Nobody knows what will happen to him if his non-citizen mother is deported while Daddy is getting shot at in Iraq.

More reasons to get pissed off, and a modest proposal, below the fold.

Tweedle Dee and Dum, our two so-called Senators from North Carolina, are all a-twitter about their latest xenophobic masterpiece: declaring English to be the national language. Char-O has the story.