Editor's notebook: U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles dishonors Memorial Day with political stunt

[Uncle Joe]

5th District representatives’ Memorial Day “Stop the Invasion” featured recycled complaints about Nashville and showed disdain for immigrants in the U.S. military

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The role of immigrants in defending the U.S.

Ogles made a mockery of Memorial Day by choosing to hold a xenophobic stunt and branding it as patriotic.

More than 750 immigrants are recipients of the Medal of Honor — the highest award in the country recognizing military service members for acts of bravery and heroism above and beyond the call of duty. A calculation shows that over 21% of the 3,528 total recipients of the Medal of Honor have been immigrants.

Many, though not all, Medal recipients receive the award posthumously, having died in service, and not all of the immigrants who received the award became naturalized citizens. And that’s to say nothing of the 760,000 immigrants who, according to the Immigrant Learning Center, have served in the military over the last 100 years.

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The rule of law

Ogles and his other guests, which included Metro Nashville Councilmember David Benton, Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson and Reps. Lee Reeves and Gina Bulso, all Williamson County Republicans, talked about immigration in terms of “the rule of law.”

I asked Ogles, during the brief question and answer session, about his own issues with the rule of law — he’s been the subject of a federal investigation over allegations he violated federal campaign finance laws — but he quickly cut me off.

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