According to the USA Today article on illegal immigration:
Health care, new financial regulations and energy legislation are pending in Congress — and today President Obama is hearing about a new immigration bill.
A group of immigration activists met during the lunch hour with President Obama, who will speak this afternoon with two senators seeking to forge an immigration deal on Capitol Hill. Tonight, Obama will have dinner with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Given all on Obama’s political plate, is immigration doable before the Nov. 2 congressional elections? White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said it depends on bipartisan support, and he will gauge the chances of that during his meeting with Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
“The only way we get this through the White House and the House is with bipartisan support,” Gibbs said.
Some activists remind Obama that immigration change was one of his campaign promises.
Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, said, “For months, the White House and congressional staff have worked behind the scenes to advance comprehensive immigration reform.”
“But what’s been missing,” he said, “is a clear and public commitment from the president to use his political capital to advance reform this year as promised.”
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, send out a statement reminding the White House that conservatives will fight any plan that grants “amnesty” to illegal immigrants.
“Americans have rejected amnesty in 2006 and 2007,” King said, “and they will reject it again if the Obama Administration tries to force it upon them. It is wrong to reward immigration law breakers.”
So now we have several groups playing political football again… SHOCKER! I should be a rock and roll drummer for the drums I beat, and Illegal Immigration is one of them (see here, here, and here). Under this bill, one of the covenants being pushed for is a “path to citizenship for undocumented workers”, or in other words, amnesty. Amnesty for people that have committed a crime and invaded a foreign country. Amnesty for people that by-and-large obtain employment by using forged documents. Amnesty for people that often assume another’s identity. Three crimes listed right off the bat, but let’s give those wonderful people another chance, right? I mean, they only come here to work, right?
What many amnesty supporters miss is the hypocrisy. If someone is poor, and steals from a store to obtain products for their house, is there theft justified? Should we also give them amnesty? No. So then why should we give amnesty to people whose very existence here is literally a criminal one? One of America’s strengths is its immigrant population, but there are limits.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is playing race politics, and advocating that our country reward those who have committed crimes against us, by forgiving them. This is typical of politicians of any race or region, but the problem is that typical needs to leave Washington. Typical is what has gotten us into so many of our current predicaments. Vote them out too.
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I personally think they will need more than 1300 troops to get the job done on the border, but who knows?
Hey Moe. Glad to see you back!
You made a point:
“It seems to me that there is no political will at all to curb the immigration. Makes me think we want them here. ”
Let’s think like a politician for a moment. What do they most want and fear at the same time? Votes. An easy way to get a community on your side, or against you, where there is a large illegal presence from their homeland is to take a stand.
Currently our largest flow is from Mexico and that border. We already have funds approved to do something about it. Virtual fences do little, but 50 foot high ones do. We start there. This won’t solve all of the problems, but it will start by tending to the sucking chest wound that is our southern border.
Education, healthcare, etc can be helped by stopping the influx first, and by removing the rest. We need to adopt the same laws that countries like Mexico have towards illegals, and immigration as a whole and then we’ll see a lot fewer problems here.
I think it was Janet Napolitano who said something like “show me a fifty foot fence, and I’ll show you a fifty five foot ladder”.
Ah. well.
Shoot, I meant fifty ONE foot ladder.
We all know this business of immigration reform will keep popping up every few years – as it has for a few decades now – because however we’d like to bend reality, these people aren’t going anywhere. Denying they’re here hurts us all in the long run. And makes things like police work almost impossible.
We need much more control to keep people from just waltzing in here, but we seem to be doing a very bad job of that. We need to follow up on people who overstay visas but we seem to do a very bad job of that as well.
We’re supposed to be prosecuting people who hire illegals, but we also seem to be doing a very bad job of that.
It seems to me that there is no political will at all to curb the immigration. Makes me think we want them here.
We pretend that we’re going to deal with it. And we don’t. So maybe a little more of a reality based approach – like at least grandfathering and registering the ones who are here and put our policing energy into stopping the flow.
don’t know what else we can do.