It's great to be a white man in America

Is your town turning to
shit? Blame it on non-whites.

Tom Macklin, the mayor of Avon Park, Florida is proposing a city ordinance to deny business permits to companies that knowingly hired illegal immigrants. The ordinance, which states that illegal immigration "destroys our neighborhoods and diminishes our overall quality of life," would also make English the official language of Avon Park, removing Spanish from all city documents, signs and automated phone messages. (I think if they were legal it would make no difference to him.)

"We just wouldn't be able to stay here," said Armando Garcia Cortes, 45, who said he came to Avon Park, about 80 miles southeast of Orlando, from Veracruz, Mexico, to pick oranges and fix roofs. "They're going to see the farmworker population here drop. We would all be leaving."

John Koch, who sells glassware and model cars at the Broken Spoke Flea Market on Main Street, (and who is white) said that would be fine.

Melva Santana, a shopkeeper who was among a crowd of whites, blacks and Hispanics eating at Taqueria Merlo on Thursday, said she feared the ordinance would encourage people who had kept their prejudices quiet to begin harassing immigrants.

This week, Ms. Santana said, a sales clerk refused to sell her sister beer because she had a Puerto Rico driver's license, and the clerk said, "I can't read it."

Hmmm, aren't birth years the same in English and Spanish?