Every month or so this crap comes out again. I don’t think anything else will happen in this congress. The Senate bill is a sure loser.
“Every month or so this crap comes out again. I don’t think anything else will happen in this congress.”
Yes, we’ve gotten through another month without a vote in the House, and we’re one month closer to the election. But these people are insidious! And Rebecca Talent, John McCain’s aide who is now working for Boehner is no doubt behind whatever timing strategy they have planned, after the primaries but before July 4th, after the summer recess but before the elections, or after the elections and before the end of the congress.
Now, there is reform, and there is reform.
“Amnesty” is not a constructive reform. Not for the persons declared s “illegal”, not for America, and certainly not for Republicans. Losing issue, especially when presented to all those immigrants that came in the “right” way, waiting in line, going through all the background checks, and paid all the fees. The legal immigrants that came to America with intent of becoming Americans themselves, those are the people who have helped make America what it was for over 200 years.
Now actually reforming the immigration code, so that those who are admitted on a legal basis to the US to become citizens, to include persons beneficial to the economic opportunities that prevail in the US (well, they USED to count, and could again), are given the priority they deserve, is a worthy goal. But apparently one that is not even being discussed at the moment.
People who enter the US, for whatever reason, and do not intend to become citizens (and there are WAY more of these than the “amnesty” people claim) must be carefully tracked, and should be required to report any and all movements while within the US. The least infraction of legal requirements for continued residency in the US is sufficient for immediate deportation, not necessarily to their home country, but certainly, elsewhere.