Senate Looking To Compromise On Immigration

The compromise could satisfy some conservatives opposed to any program that offers illegal immigrants a way to stay in the country and work toward citizenship, which they term "amnesty." Under the plan, illegal immigrants could not be put ahead of others legally in the country and seeking U.S. citizenship. Because long-term illegal immigrants would still have to apply for a green card through normal channels, they also could not jump ahead of workers hoping to come to the United States through legal channels.

Story here. I think that negative Conservative reactions on immigration reform are being overstated by some. The majority of Conservatives are not intolerant, or unreasonable people. If many of us have a concern, it is that any new enforcement policies will not be carried out to genuine effect. It's possible that that is more of an issue than the allowing for some number of immigrants to stay and pursue citizenship, so long as they meet certain pre-defined criteria.

Mainstream Conservatives are not anti-immigration, they are anti-illegal-immigration with non-assimilation. If anything, a lack of faith in big government to carry things out effectively is the underlying concern.

If the Senate can produce a reasonable compromise such as the one being contemplated, my feeling is that Conservatives will sign onto it, provided there are dollars and a genuine willingness to follow through with enforcement.

If Republicans can assure people enforcement and assimilation will happen, it would go a long way toward selling any potential compromise. But that is not going to be an easy task given our government's track record.

Comments

[Althor]

The problem is that years of government inaction on enforcing our laws and of having virtually open borders, have bred a "false sense of security," and an attitude of "arrogance" in most of these illegal Mexcicans and Central Americans, such as that of the man interviewed on the Spanish speaking TV network, Univision, who has already been deported "eight" times back to El Salvador, and yet says "he will keep coming back," non chalantly with a snicker of indifference on his face; or that of Jorge Ramos the Univision TV anchor, and Jaime Rodriguez, self proclaimed "organizer" of the LA demonstrations and the forthcoming May 1st protests, who have repeatedly retorted in TV interviews to critics of the "Amnesty" Legislation so many are trying to shove down our collective throats in Washington, "defiantly" and with a smirk of "in your face" smugness on their faces: "So, we are here now America, and we are going nowhere. What are you going to do about it ???" confident in their "hubris" that we will either find it too controversial, or inhumane, or politically incorrect, won't have the rersolve, or just won't have "the balls," to simply begin to enforce our laws, actively crackdown on illegal immigrants, and systematically deport them, as well we should!!!

From what we have witnessed over the last two weeks with American flags being flown upside-down beneath Mexican flags, and Mexican flags being hoisted in our schools, the
"this is our land" posters, and the "Che Guevara," "It's time for revolution" T-shirts worn by all the "La Raza" and "Aztlan" sympathizers whose professed goal is to symply overrun us demographically to in effect take back the American Southwest, and indeed the rest of the US, by fiat of their sheer numbers reflected in the "populist vote"; any person not blinded by "saccharine idealism," or "political ideology" can discern that many of these people have the least desire to "integrate" and or "assimilate" into our society, which they hate in principle as having "exploited" them and robbed them (Mexico) of their land, and which in their minds many have come to equate to their former "Spanish Overlords," whom they have been taught to despise for generations, but rather on asserting their "national identities and customs," and imposing their "culture" on us!!!

In a chilling analogy, viruses infect a “host” cell, by destroying its DNA and supplanting it with their own, which then goes on to turn out more copies of the invading virus.

In a similar manner, if the shade of the things to come does not change...that may very well be the fate of America, and we will become just another "Mestizo" (those of mixed indian-spanish descent comprising 98% of the population of these countries) "Banan Republic," or an "extension of Mexico" as in the "Republica del Norte" Aztlan dreams.... God only knows that even today, standing on a street corner of many of our major cities, one would think he was in "Michoacan" or "Tegucigalpa," instead of on a street in America!!!

Althor

[Phoenix]

Ultimately, the soon-to-come civil unrest will activate the government to get serious. It's one of democracy's flaws that the 'people' are complacent and the government counts on that complacency to get by with doing what they want or don't want to do. Then, sooner or later, the people get pissed-off and force the government into action. Not a bad thing, but what a stupid waste.