Posted on 02/04/2010 9:19:53 AM PST by Wolf13
Immigration reform may seem a distant priority for a ruling party that’s made the increasingly elusive goals of job creation and health care reform its primary focus in 2010.
Nevertheless, President Barack Obama and top congressional Democrats have signaled that, as Obama said in his State of the Union address, “fixing our broken immigration system” remains at the top of their legislative To Do list before the midterm elections.
But Democrats push immigration reform legislation, which would include amnesty for illegal residents, at their own peril. With employment persisting at 10 percent, addressing immigration risks reviving the grass-roots backlashes that have thus far defined the Obama presidency.
Even before the president’s SOTU call to action, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), according to POLITICO, was “quietly spreading the word within the immigration community that he has the White House’s support to pass a bill by April.”
Schumer reportedly struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that he and other liberal Democrats would not push hard to include illegal immigrants under health care reform as long as the White House committed to starting an immigration overhaul effort this year.
Undertaking immigration reform now would only slightly delay Obama’s promise to tackle immigration in his first year. It might also energize America’s 11 million Latino voters, including the 3 million Latinos who voted for the first time in 2008, ahead of what look like very difficult elections for Democrats.
But it also would very likely provoke an intense grass-roots backlash. In 2007, when immigration reform was last debated, legislation that included amnesty looked likely to pass until many members of Congress went home to find deep opposition among their constituents.
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That won’t stop them.
Obama is trying to push through his rationed hellcare.
Remember, he needs the vote of the tin cup people and fraud to get a second term. He will use and abuse those in his pary for his own self preservation.
Damn right it will. Any moves toward amnesty will be met with a Tea Party reaction that will make the past summer's Town Halls seem like quiet whispers. Go ahead, dems... make our day. PLEASE keep reminding people why you're unfit to lead.
Democrats don’t see it that way.
They are dense and totally out of touch with reality.
I pray that the Rats and RINOs take this up soon!
Do you want to “fix our broken immigration system”?
Secure the border. Enforce the law. The problem will resolve itself over a relatively short time.
Immigration law should always serve the interests of citizens, first, foremost, and always. It should never be viewed as some kind of international welfare project.
When is the last time your political leaders asked your opinion before imposing any change in immigration policy? The last ones they consult is the citizenry. Not even last; they never ever consult the people they purportedly work for.
This even has less support than the Health Care Bill did.
Just try it
If you think people are mad now . . . just try it
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