Posted on 03/31/2010 7:34:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After the health-care fight, we can expect the Obama administration to use the same template to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.” That is a euphemism for permanently ceasing construction of the still-incomplete border fence; institutionalizing a large guest-worker program; treating illegal residents as de facto citizens in terms of receiving earned-income credits, health care, and general entitlements; and providing virtual amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens.
And what exactly is that model for passage of something that promises to be so unpopular?
We know the boilerplate well after a year of health-care acrimony. First, immigration policy — like health care, and cap-and-trade to come — will be cast as a civil-rights issue. That is, free access to the United States and, for some, its entitlement industry for millions of impoverished Mexicans will be redefined as comparable to ending discrimination in the South in the 1960s.
Next, skeptics will be branded “racists” and “nativists,” as is being done now to the tea partiers. A few House members will wade through anti-illegal-immigration rallies, and within minutes the media will announce “racial slurs” and “a scary atmosphere” suggesting “violence” and “hatred.”
This polarization is critical for the bill’s passage, since it does not have 50 percent public support — and won’t unless a series of constituencies can be united to see the issue in polarities such as us vs. them, whites vs. people of color, rich vs. poor. Blacks will be told it is Birmingham all over again. The Mexican-American middle class, highly skeptical of open borders, will be told that opposition to amnesty is “anti-Hispanic.”
So the debate will be personalized — and, above all, blurred. Opponents, we will also be told, are not bothered by illegal immigration per se. Rather they are “anti-immigrant” — as the issue is transmuted into one of hating real people rather than opposing an illegal activity.
Fence-sitting House members will be promised all sorts of special multi-million-dollar earmarks to allay “voter concern.” Executive orders will be pledged to override the more disturbing elements of congressional legislation. Anecdotes about starving children, and accusations of responsibility for the deaths of hundreds trying to cross the border in the desert, will pepper the rhetoric of open-border advocates.
The key will be to redefine as liberal something as inherently illiberal as illegal immigration. Thus there will be no discussion of what the surge over the last two decades of more than 11 million illegal aliens has done to poorer American workers.
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Its already begun. The whole “right-wing” violence/bigotry blitz is a prelude to the immigration debate. It sets the stage for “the right hates Hispanics” argument.
I hate these people. They are taking the Constitution and wiping their butts with it and laughing at us all the while doing it.
And the desctruction of “America” as a unique culture in the world contines apace.
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Are there House and Senate bills already passed? If so, they could do some kind of “reconciliation.”
If not, they still need 60 votes in the Senate to call for cloture.
With 41 Republicans, it is possible to hold up any immigration bill, unless RINOs like McCain, Graham, Snowe, Collins and Voinovich ... decide to sell us out again.
This will help control the distribution of Federal (our) monies, and the allocation of resources to those who are not citizens as well.
We are so blind and helpless, they tax us to build a wall, don’t do it, get the votes they need and keep our money.
Say goodbye to freedom, our politicians are lost in a sea of corrupt deals and ideologies apart from the constitution.
It is amazing to me that unions are not fighting immigration tooth and nail as amnesty is a durect threat to union jobs.
Also, amnesty would also explode the federal deficit, not to mention busting state budgets which are already facing bankruptcy.
As union pensions and benefits face a big threat because of state budgets going bankrupt and the possible mass laying off of state workers, I believe there will be such an outcry over any amnesty legislation even from democrats as well, that the legilation will face doom even quicker than it did under the Bush administration.
So they are planning to save the economy exactly when?
My guess is that once they are made legal, the President will bestow voting rights along with citizenship.
This is part and parcel of Obama’s plan to pick up more votes and eliminate that narrow gap in national elecitons between conservatives and liberals.
It is the second part of his strategy to change America into a socialist state by bringing in more foreign voters and bribe them with health benefits.
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The GOP needs to shut down Congress if they go down this path.
Thank McCain for McCain-Feingold. It put the Dems in power 2006/2008.
Well, if they ram anything like that through again, the country will explode in November. 100 new Republican seats anyone?
Don’t you understand? They already have saved it! (meaning that they really don’t know how to).
Calling opponents of immigration reform RACISTS will backfire BIG TIME when those front and center protesting any amnesty are black workers, and 3rd generation Latino’s who do not want to see their wages eroded by new immigrants.
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Don’t you understand? They already have saved it! (meaning that they really don’t know how to).
Silly me, I should have gotten the news from MSNBC! I’m sure they’re all over it!
The tactics and politically correct arguments may well carry the day. We’ve seen this on other issues too, such as homosexual marriage. With homosexual marriage, the liberals have had some success with saying the gay situation is the same as inter-racial marriage. At least they have made it a liberal cause celebre. And they have convinced enough judges to see it the liberal way.
And if the legislative effort on immigration fails, it wouldn’t surprise me to see court cases, with liberal judges ruling that anyone in this country, regardless of why they are here or how they got here, are entitled to all rights of citizenship.
Marriage was redefined by liberal judges. Why couldn’t they re-define citizenship and legal status?
If and when republicans come to power, I think they should make any state judicial position a non appointed one but instead voted on by every voter in each state.
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