(Cross-posted at Daily Kos.)

(I'm doing some work with America's Voice-- they've got a thorough run-down at their website.)

As our economy continues to stagger and gasp along with record market failures-- and the failure of our paralytic government to do a single thing about it-- a lot of people are searching for explanations.

Take, for example, Michelle Malkin and Mark Krikorian. Yes, they're searching-- one might even say they are grasping at straws.

Malkin's subtle theory is that the whole thing is a natural consequence of letting too many Mexicans across the border:

The Mother of All Bailouts has many fathers...But there's one giant paternal elephant in the room that has slipped notice: how illegal immigration, crime-enabling banks, and open-borders Bush policies fueled the mortgage crisis.

Yes, I wish I was satirizing poor Michelle-- but her feeble little brain actually did come up with that statement in all apparent seriousness.

There's more...

(Cross-posted, in slightly different format, at Daily Kos.)

Sure, fine, okay-- global warming exists after all... but only to the extent that it's one more thing we can blame on the immigrants.

Such is the fascinating scholarship now offered to us by the brilliant minds at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Luckily, we have America's Voice-- a group I've had the pleasure of working with, a group doing everything it can to combat this inanity and work toward the sort of sensible, humane, comprehensive policy that American citizens have been calling out for.

In my first diary here about America's Voice, I wrote about the group's name. Then I wrote about one particularly odious band of racists who oppose our agenda...

There's more...