Come January Republicans have an opportunity to act like adults with regard to immigration. Let’s hope they do.
What that means is to stop all the infighting and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that addresses both the state of millions of illegal immigrants, and the broader immigration issues especially those related to attracting the skilled workforce America needs. Needless to say, this should have been done years ago.
As things stand we have allowed immigration reform to deteriorate into little more than the Hispanic influx of low skilled individuals and hence who can cast themselves in the best light with Hispanic voters. It is much more than that.
The United States needs immigrants of all types and to a large extent there is a morale obligation to make immigration available to world citizens who seek a better life, but there are limits and there are laws to follow. We are all hypocrites to simply oppose immigration especially from Mexico and Latin America while at the same time taking advantage of their labor on our farms, in our yards and in our homes and medical facilities.
What President Obama has done is wrong, not only because its legality is questionable, but also because it sends the wrong message and because it is a blatant political move to gain favor with a voting block friendly to Democrats. Once again we have demonstrated responsibility doesn’t matter and that you can be rewarded even by breaking the rules. Now that much of the lost money has been returned to his victims, should we parole Madoff?
If Republicans allow the extreme right to control, if they take an aggressive stance against Obama on this issue and if they fail to create a law that protects America’s interests and is fair and enforceable, they are fools.
It’s time for somebody to simply do the right thing.
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Awesome! Its genuinely awesome paragraph,
I have got much cleear idea on the topic of from this paragraph.
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My point is simply that the D’s don’t want comprehensive immigration reform. They pass bills R’s in the house cannot support. So, that allows them to demagogue and use this as an election ploy.
Watch. Let’s see if the house passes commonsense legislation, step by step, with the Senate agreement (or will the D’s fillibuster) and assuming it makes its way past the Senate D’s, let’s see if President Obama vetoes it.
Start with a border security bill. Then expand H1B visas. Watch, or don’t watch. You know the D’s will resist anything commonsense that incorporates limits on illegal immigrants.
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You are probably right.
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You have a short memory. It is the d’s who manipulate the immigration issue for political advantage. Four years ago, it was President Obama who failed to move forward – holding onto this issue as a political issue/chit for 2012 and 2014 elections. else, why not pass legislation in the lame duck of november 2010 – january 2011?
and, it was then-senator Obama who helped scuttle immigration reform more than seven years ago.
President Bush supported comprehensive legislation and reached out to Democrats after they gained control of Congress in 2006. Some Republicans opposed the plan, criticizing the citizenship provisions as amnesty and saying that border security needed bolstering instead. Some Democrats, though, opposed it as well, because their allies in organized labor were against more non-citizens being allowed into the U.S.to work. McCain, together with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., worked out a compromise measure that included several pillars: a path to citizenship for workers illegally in the country, increased border security, improved enforcement of employment law, and more visas for temporary workers.
The Senate took up the compromise package, with supporters warning that it could be derailed by any amendments that changed its substance. On June 6, Obama proposed an amendment to end after five years a new merit-based system for awarding green cards that confer permanent resident status. The new system would have apportioned green cards based on the nation’s economic needs and moved away from the existing system, which rewards family ties. A coalition of immigrant rights groups endorsed Obama’s measure, saying the new system would discriminate in favor of immigrants with higher education and training in specialty occupations. But Obama’s amendment was unsuccessful; the Senate rejected it, 42-55.
Hours later, though, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., offered an amendment to end after five years a different program, one that allowed more temporary workers. Dorgan said the program would bring in cheap labor through the back door and squeeze out American workers. Supporters of reform warned that the amendment could scuttle the deal, but the Senate adopted the amendment in a 49-48 vote, with Obama voting with Dorgan.
The bill’s supporters branded Dorgan’s effort a “deal-breaker.” Soon after, the legislation collapsed amid three failed votes to cut off debate on June 7, 2007.
So, the president only wants immigration change that he agrees with – we call this my way or the highway. It is the action of despots.
I say send him common sense immigration reforms starting with border security, then an expansion of h1b visas, then an expansion for converting pet-secondary student visa’s to work visa’s, then a personal responsibility requirement – no welfare, no subsideized public exchange coverage, and a requirement of financial sponsorship for any visa’s based on reuniting families. I can only hope that the R’s use the next two years to again also pass the 300 or so bills that the house passed in 2013 – 2014, that never got a vote in the D controlled Senate.
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What memory. Im talking about now and forward. We said the same thing; pass common sense legislation and they dont have to worry about Reid.
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