Posted on 04/23/2007 6:18:16 PM PDT by Sharks
The politicans have top notch health care and live quite well. The rest of us get to EAT CAKE.
If the republicans had some how managed to hold on in 2006. we would be hearing how the win was an “endorsement” for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Then, the politicians have the unmitigated gall to wonder why the public despises them.
The difference between the two parties? Mostly just a few pretty words. We are being sold out, because they are determined to import cheap labor when they can’t export the job.
Of most interest to me in this article was the following;
-—” But key sticking points remain. Democrats oppose Republican proposals to make it harder for temporary workers to stay in the country, bar them from bringing family members to the U.S. and end visa preferences for citizens’ relatives.-—”
On the one hand, I am shocked that GOP leaders are allegedly fighting to include at least some such sensible and conservative provisions to the overall amnesty bill. Part of me doesn’t believe it, but another part of me thinks that some in the GOP actually understand demographics, and realize that most immigrants are going to become Democrats, and they therefore want to limit the number of future Democrats we import.
Ending extended family chain migration is a much-needed reform. Making it harder for ‘guest workers’ to stay permanently would also be good, and key to that is making it so that they can’t bring family with them while still technically ‘guests’, because if they are allowed to do so, then it is almost inevitable that most ‘guests’ will put down roots that results in them wanting to (and being allowed to) stay permanently. Taken together, such provisions might prevent the type of enormous increases in permanent legal immigration that ‘comprehensive’ reformers wish to deceptively enact.
On the other hand, I have no doubt that the Democrats will prevail on this, and neither President Bush or the GOP Congressional leadership will fight to keep such sensible reforms that could at least make this travesty of a bill stink a little less. If any bill passes, I have no doubt it will be what the Democrats want; amnesty for illegals, and a massive increase in permanent legal immigration under the guise of a guest worker prgram.
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