Alan Coffey,
The Digital Federalist
on Immigration from FSP:
So what do you propose we do with the millions of people who are here already. Many are working and paying taxes. some are not. You are usually a reasonable man so I offer a modest proposal …
“I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of Mexicans, is in the present deplorable state of the Republic a very great additional grievance; and, therefore, whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound, useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
I have been assured by a very knowing Frenchman of my acquaintance in New York, that a young healthy Mexican is a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.”
– With apologies to Jonathan Swift.