Immigration law needs to be reformed. It is broken.
It all depends on what the details are.
What we need are the following:
Strict enforcement of the borders
A a “guest worker” program that does *not* allow for citizenship.
Some kind of control on “Anchor babies”.
Moving away from allowing one person to move their entire extended family to the United States once they are here.
Streamlining legal immigration so that it does not take years and many thousands of dollars for legal immigrants.
Moving back to a system that favors productive immigrants.
Even if something is passed, do you REALLY think the Obama administration is going to actually enforce any new “border enforcement” law? Ditto any big-city liberal mayors?
They all ignore the current laws on the books right now, and they will continue to ignore any future laws. Except when it pertains to further opening the floodgates to legalization. That part, they’ll take and run with.
“Immigration law needs to be reformed. It is broken.”
YES, YES, YES !!!
Your other comments are spot on.
What we need is the best leadership that can be mustered.
The current immigration situation does not poll well even with many Democrats.
Our base needs to fight hard but not be so ridiculous that all we end up with is nothing better than what we have now.
The law isn’t broken. The enforcement system is. The executive branch has no desire to restrict people coming into this country. That means whatever Congress passes, will make no difference. It will remain broken until the executive branch is made to enforce the law or utter chaos becomes the law.
We don’t need a “guest” worker program. We need encouragement for US citizens to work. The 14th Amendment should apply to the situation it was created for, American slaves, not illegals or other foreigners. So absolutely no anchor babies at all. Streamlining immigration should only be attempted after the executive branch is reigned in. Only people here legally should be allowed to work. E verify should be used and anyone hiring illegals knowingly or without doing diligence to determine legality, should have to pay huge fines. All benefits should be limited to American citizens even if it takes a Constitutional amendment to make that happen.
When goodies and gimme’s are taken away and they can’t get work, they will go home on their own. Once that happens, we can think about working on streamlining legal immigration.