Commentary: Immigration reform takes courage (Barfer)

CNN ^ | 6/29/2009 | Ruben Navarrette Jr.

[Red in Blue PA]

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- The advocates of comprehensive immigration reform have a message for their opponents: "Game on!"

They're right. For the first six months of the Obama administration, immigration reform was on the back burner. But Thursday, the issue began making its way to the front of the stove when President Obama met with congressional leaders of both parties to plan a major piece of legislation.

After the meeting, Obama told reporters, "After all the overheated rhetoric and the occasional demagoguery on all sides around this issue, we've got a responsible set of leaders sitting around the table who want to actively get something done and not put it off until a year, two years, three years, five years from now, but to start working on this thing right now."

One of those in the room was New York Sen. Chuck Schumer. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, he is expected to write the bill which could be unveiled this fall.

Given what Schumer said last week at a gathering sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, his legislation will almost certainly combine enhanced border enforcement and earned legalization for undocumented immigrants in the United States. Before the sausage is complete, however, we might also see a requirement that all workers carry a tamper-proof identification card and new criteria for admitting legal immigrants.

[Red in Blue PA]

FYI: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a La raza loon.

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“immigration reform”: amnesty by any other name would smell the same

[Condor51]

Meanwhile, both parties still have to deal with the insanity that runs in the family. Republicans will have to finally stand up to nativists who fear change,

Sorry Ruben but 'nativists' is not a dirty word. And it has nothing to do with fearing change.

nativists:

1. the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
   
2. the policy or practice of preserving or reviving an indigenous culture.

In case you haven't looked lately Ruben, unemployment of 'Americans' is at an all time modern high. So it ain't exactly the time to be adding 'immigrants' to those numbers, or them being in competition for jobs 'Americans' WILL DO.

As to 'Fearing Change'. Yes, I fear the change to my Village that happened to my old neighborhood in Chicago.

It went from a LOW crime, middle class with good schools neighborhood, to a neighborhood that's mostly full if ILLEGALS and BELOW POVERTY level, with high crime thanks to Mexican Gang-bangers, and schools that now suck.

I 'fear' that, so sue me!