I can sort of see where the pols are coming from. They only know what they read in the papers and those are remarkably uniniformed on this topic. Indeed, they've done a great deal deliberately to convince their readers that the people in the street constituted a majority. That's a disservice even to the Democrats, because they're going to get killed on this issue if they follow the lead of the NY Times in the matter. So will the Republicans.
The pols are frightened to death of being portrayed as coming down on a minority despite the fact that this particular minority is an illegal one. When a Rasmussen poll indicated that more than half of the Hispanic population in this country is in favor of enforcing the law here you really see the disconnect between the East-coast papers and the reality on the ground.
Exactly. Crapo is starting to get it...Craig is entrenched and may take a lot more convincing. The more he hears form us, and in straight terms, the better.
You are so right about the disconnect. The Senate seems to be in their ivory tower once again. The House is more attuned to the street, probably because they have to run for re-election every two years.
To a person, every person of Hispanic descent I know is against the illegal invasion. If they are recent immigrants, they are angry that they followed the rules and these people are not. If they are native-born they still have no tolerance for this invasion. No one thinks that just because a person has successfully broken the law, he or she should be rewarded for that lawbreaking. It's like not chasing bank robbers unless they happen to be caught red-handed.
Until our unemployment rate is absolute zero and no one is on welfare, we do not need to import workers. Houses can be cleaned just fine by Americans, lawns can be mowed, houses can be built. It's ridiculous to think our country would shut down without them. Only the farmwork might suffer, there is where I'd go along with guest workers, if it was done in a controlled and rational manner and not as an automatic road to citizenship because once these people get to be citizens, they won't want to be in the fields either.
The debate has been hijacked by liberals, framing the issue not as "illegal aliens" but as "undocumented workers" or just plain "immigrants". They are painting anti-illegal immigration forces are racist or hatemongers. Typical liberal tactics. Enough is enough!