Hen Party

Some wonder whether St. Joseph's did enough in the case of Arvizu. They ask if he'd still be alive if he'd never been sent south, a move they say neither he nor his mother was happy with.

This same school staffer visited Arvizu in a hospital in Hermosillo, Sonora, bringing with her $600 raised by Arvizu's fellow students through a car wash and direct contributions. It wasn't enough to cover the cost of even one of his chemo treatments in Mexico, at $1,000 a pop. Arvizu's fellow students are now raising money to help his family pay for the funeral.

North High teacher Jane McNamara related that Arvizu got good grades, was active in choir and in the Junior ROTC, and wanted to join the Army. He would've been an ideal candidate for citizenship, if this country had a DREAM Act. But it doesn't.

Many nativists, The Bird's sure, would happily dance on Arvizu's grave. That's why this heron's hesitant to give out ­information regard­ing future fund­raisers, knowing the potential for violence by some in the anti-immigrant camp. To these heartless cretins, Arvizu, and all teenagers like him, are criminals, deserving of immediate deportation, regardless of medical status.

Many on the nativist side consider themselves Christians. They invoke the Good Book to justify their hatred, anger and prejudice, just as some Christians once justified slavery and later Jim Crow with that same religious text.

Don't know which version they're thumbing through, but in this beak-bearer's Bible, the man from Galilee tells his disciples, "Suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God."

He didn't say, "Suffer the little American children" or "Suffer the little white kids." Unless your Bible's the "New and Revised Russell Pearce Edition." This raven ran into state Representative Pearce on December 1 at the Joe Arpaio Roast in Sun City West and asked him about the DREAM Act. What about the kids of illegals who've obeyed the law, gotten good grades, etc., etc.? He was having none of it. "Illegal is illegal," he spat.

Which made this magpie recall that other line from Jesus Christ regarding children, "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble."

Heh, when it comes to evil ol' black-heart Russell Pearce, we can only hope he and his heavenly millstone have a date with destiny.