As the magnificently coiffed Eddie Izzard once asked, "Do you have a flag?"
To recap: City banning the rental of properties to illegal immigrants now finds it has a negative reputation for doing so. The solution? In a jingoistic paen that would have made Lee Atwater vomit, certain residents of Farmer's Branch want to "solve" their "image problem" by flying gigantic American flags at a patriotic-themed park and have patriotic festivals.
Why am I not surprised that a city trying to make cheap labor into someone else's problem thinks that "clap louder" can actually be considered sane public policy?
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