"The Senate immigration compromise wont do."
Try to please everybody and all you will accomplish is pleasing nobody.
He's too polite.
He should put forth his own bill, the one he advocated with Nelson.
The Hagel bill is not a "compromise" but will be touted so by many Senate REpubs, all dems and Bush. It is a sell out to the American middle and lower classes. It's scope is awing. Like the "essential worker" provision. Essential for whom? Essential is defined by the cheap labor industry.
The feds have to pass an enforcement-only bill and prove to me that they'll actually implement it. After the debacle of post-1986 enforcement, I won't believe anything they say; they'll have to show me.