On October 7, 2011 the US Senate by a unanimous voice vote and with almost no press coverage passed a resolution saying that the United States "regretted" the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.  Here is the full story from the San Francisco Chronicle.  

It is important to save the full text of this resolution because about a hundred years from now the Senate will have to pass a resolution "regretting" the building of the Wall with Mexico and the forced deportation of millions of hard working law abiding people from Latin America. 

Is it stupidity, lack of perspective or political expedience that allows our political class to only see mistakes a few generations after they make them.  

How can it be that the same politicians that passed laws that allowed the deportation of more than a million people for violating a law that is as immoral as the Chinese Exclusion Act have the chutzpah to "regret" what their predecessors did.  They are doing the same thing.

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