Update: According to the Daily Iowan the College Republicans have cancelled the event below. This is a great example to those who would treat the issue of immigration reform lightly.
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In Iowa City today, according to the Press-Citizen the University of Iowa College Republicans will sponsor a "capture-the-flag game pitting "illegals" against "border patrol" battling over a "U.S. border" at midfield." The local Republican party chair, William Keettel, says it is all harmless fun, "It's the nature of college students to project their causes. They have their ways of publicizing their position, and I have mine."
How does this action differ from the Nazis conducting a pride parade in Skokie or the KKK holding a rally in Selma? These actions reinforce the politics of hate and do not lead to constructive solutions to an age old problem. Pablo Casals, the gifted musician once said “The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
It is childish and offensive to conduct a dialogue in this way. It is beyond political correctness, it is about moral decency. I find it sad that the party of "family values" has been lax with its young.
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