The urgency for addressing “comprehensive immigration reform” is coming from two sources: the Obama administration and the coporate paymasters. There are two objectives in play.
The Dems want amnesty so they can make themselves the permanent major party sooner. Under the current immigration policies, they will become the permanent majority party anyway. Amnesty just hastens the process.
The Reps want a massive increase in guest workers as demanded by their corporate paymasters. They will concede almost anything to get it.
Religious, labor, and ethnic groups are supporting it for reasons of power, money, and increased constituencies even if it means destruction of the country.
The big losers are the American worker and the country, which will be flooded by cheap labor from the Third World.
And while Gowdy et al. were spouting off their inanities about fairness for illegals yesterday, Pew was releasing its poll showing illegals prefer Dhimms 8-1.
The Stupid Party just keeps getting stupider while poking its base in the eye.
I won’t send a penny to any of these jerks lining up behind any form of amnesty, even if they may be somewhat solid in other areas. Immigration is killing us.
They want to help big business (someone mentioned that) which I'm sure will help their campaign coffers.
They are stupid and think the leftist will stop calling them heartless for picking on innocence children. (They had to make it about the children like they always do- except with abortion, then it's about the woman and her body)
They are looking for a new base OR maybe they want to abandon conservatives, thinking they can do what liberals do and call the left, too far left and the right, too far right, and portray themselves as centrist. They can't see that their base is 70% conservative, and assume we will vote for them because we where else will we go? They want to believe that conservatives did vote for romney, and that they just need to get more independents.
Until conservatives in bulk, make it clear we will not march left with them, they will continue to “use” us to gain power. We need to seriously look at a third party. The problem is the same as we have with the primary. Everyone goes in different directions.