Posted on 12/11/2013 12:27:26 PM PST by jimbo123
Few in Washington want to see House and Senate negotiators strike a budget deal more than advocates for immigration reform.
Their interest is not so much in the policy as the timing. The unending fiscal battles have repeatedly stolen the spotlight from immigration in the House, and the government shutdown in October sapped the legislative push of both time and political good will.
With Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) taking steps to revive immigration reform, advocates now see one remaining window for action in the early part of 2014, before election season begins.
But that opportunity will be lost, lawmakers and aides say, if yet another budget fight erupts in January and February.
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Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) are working on separate legalization proposals, but it isn’t clear whether either can win the necessary support.
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They pretended like it was too late to make a deal this year to get conservatives to shut up, and then wham, here comes an amendment to something
If the Republicans had a brain among them, they would get the message out that we can’t bring in millions of low wage workers while millions of Americans are out of work. The rats would counter that amnesty only involves those already here, which is false because it is a draw to millions more, but the Pubs wouldn’t have to even get into those tall weeds. Just get the message out and repeat it: Amnesty means competition for your job.
Pushing an amnesty vote closer to the Nov. 2014 elections is a good enough reason to fight this sell-out budget deal, even if there weren’t 100 other reasons to do so.
Immigration reform is sorely needed, but tying it to amnesty for current illegals is not the way to achieve those reforms.
People allowed to enter the United States on a permanent resident status, already have a formal path to follow. There are exceptions made for purposes of asylum, or compassionate reasons, or as a sponsored guest of an individual who is already a citizen, but residency is not and should never be the sole determining factor in granting citizenship. There must also be an “Americanization” protocol to be followed, including but not limited to continuous residency for a specified period, demonstration of reputable character, study of the cultural American values, an exhibition of both understanding and applying the US civil law, and establishing a fully self-supporting life style.
Birth on US soil should not confer an automatic birthright of citizenship, but application may be made in the manner of every other immigrant upon attaining the age of majority, and therefore legally responsible for personal decisions and actions.
Not every person admitted to the US is on a pathway to citizenship, and in fact some may be hostile to the nation as it exists. But so long as they are a GUEST of the country, it is expected they shall act in a civil and non-subversive manner, else they shall be subject to immediate expulsion as an undesirable alien.
Immigration, as a whole, should be something that is in the best national interests of the entity that is known as “the United States of America”, and not subservient to some ideology or foreign influence. Wealth, or lack of it, should not be a determinant of the fitness of any individual to become a US citizen, but it is not to be used as a substitute for overcoming other objections or challenges to granting of citizenship.
Seems way too late for that.
“If the Republicans had a brain among them, they would get the message out that we can’t bring in millions of low wage workers while millions of Americans are out of work.”
The GOP corporatists are bought and paid for by the open borders lobby. You think they give a damn about the middle-class?
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