It’s not like Irving asked for immigration mess

Carolyn Hileman* | October 11, 2007

There’s no compromise, no tightrope-walking the line between irreconcilable factions, no throwing wide the window to the fresh breeze of reason. At a more distant remove, it might still be a policy debate. In Irving, it’s civil war. At least, that’s what we’re left to conclude when we read about Irving Hispanics comparing themselves to the Jews of 1930s Berlin, or witness the disturbing spectacle of an overwrought sexagenarian shooting the bird at TV cameras as the cops drag her off for attacking protesters at a pro-immigrant rally. This isn’t debate — it’s hysteria. It wasn’t that long ago that Irving’s most prominent problem was figuring out what to do with Texas Stadium once the Dallas Cowboys move out, and Mayor Herbert Gears was insisting firmly that the city had no intention of following Farmers Branch in passing divisive ordinances barring landlords from renting to tenants without proof of legal residency.

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