The comprehensive immigration battle has been going on for 13 years.
In 2001, it was about to be passed when 9-11 happened. It got shelved. They tried again in 2002, but it was stopped on a ‘technicality’ by none other than Democrat Senator Robert Byrd. It was delayed until GWBush’s 2nd term. They tried twice in 2006 (IIRC) and it failed. They tried again in 2007, after GWB ‘got a Congress he could work with’ [i.e., he lost both the House and Senate to the Dems] and it failed again.
They tried again in Obama’s first term.
Now, they are pushing it again.
They have been trying from 2001 to 2014.
In 2006 the Rep controlled Senate passed an amnesty bill (Hagel-Martinez) with the Reps voting against it 32-23. It was stopped by the House, which blue slipped the bill because it violated the origination clause. Bush and Rove got upset with the House. Rove called them nativists and bigots.
Right. And that is only the latest iteration.
There is one thing you have to hand Liberals: as ugly, wrong, and destructive as they usually are, they never quit. Ever.
Of course, neither did the Japanese in WWII. You had to kill them to make them quit. Or nuke them to convince them they had no hope of winning and were going to lose anyhow in spite of dying. I wish some on our own side had the same determination.
But I think the difference is, to a Liberal your goal is to make Heaven on Earth. But that's really a "religious" goal and not unattainable through strictly human efforts. On the other hand, to a Conservative, you know such earthly perfection is not possible. So you try and do the next best thing - allow others to operate with as much freedom and liberty as possible and exercise free will to the max without greatly impinging upon or destroying everyone else. Frankly, that's a "religious" goal as well, but a Biblically based one and not a Human based one. The later will always fail. The first is imperfect and will oft times fall short and sometimes fail in a spiritually fallen world.
The Liberal world view is wrong and will always fail in the end. Unfortunately, it can sure make Hell on Earth when it is being attempted!