Son of Undocumented Immigrants Wins Gold

Posted by David Neiwert at 10:01 AM on August 19, 2008.

Whatever you do, don't let Michelle Malkin and her horde of flying wingnut monkeys hear about Henry Cejudo:

Henry Cejudo, the 21-year-old wrestling prodigy who had wrestled in only one world-level senior tournament before Beijing, has won the Olympic gold medal in men's freestyle 55-kilogram wrestling.

Cejudo, the son of undocumented Mexican aliens who bypassed a college career to try to become an Olympian, assures the United States of winning a freestyle wrestling gold for the ninth consecutive Olympics at which it has competed.

If the nativist wingnuts -- the ones demanding the deportation of all 12 million "illegal aliens" (as they like to call them) -- get ahold of his parents, they could wind up back in Mexico. Heaven forfend if any children should be involved.

And Henry himself would not be considered a U.S. citizen under the standard nativist proposal to strip citizenship rights from the American-born children of illegal immigrants. He is, after all, a classic "anchor baby. (Sorta like Malkin herself.)

Instead, they're all rooting for him and celebrating with him today -- as are all the rest of us. Funny how that works.

Tagged as: michelle malkin, olympics, henry cejudo, wrestling

David Neiwert is a freelance journalist based in Seattle, and the assistant editor of Crosscut.