Bush Shifting On Immigration Reform

I don't have a link, but that's the word. Apparently enforcement first is starting to look like the way. Here's a new poll of bloggers on the issue at RWN.

Also, on a more somber note at Blue Crab Boulevard, a blogger's son serving in Iraq writes a tribute to a fallen comrade describing the service observed in Iraq.

Comments

[Carol Herman]

That's okay. I just wish there would be reports on the "counter-weight." In other words, in mexican neighborhoods, stuck on spanish, the reality would dawn that there are problems for this non-assimilation "technique." And, the kids that get all the breaks speak English.

By the way, hidden from view is another reality. One way into citizenship is to join the American military. Lots of Philipino's do this. Or else they wait on lists for 20 years.

You'd be surprised how many people would love it, IF they could become citizens of the USA.

We're talking about one side of the problem, here.

But like in all bridge building ... you usually see activity from both sides ... with a span meeting in the middle. Is it easy to build bridges? Nope. But it's do-able.

For the Mexicans, their worst problems are developed by the hooligans in their neighborhoods, encouraged to this by a non-working department of education.

Since there's nothing you can do about this, you could at least read Ann Coulter's new book, GODLESS, because she nails the problems where it is. With the teachers' union. And, the fack that billions are now wasted. And, the kids are coming out the poorer.

You think things stay the same, forever? I don't. But the solutions will come only when we do something with the outrageousness of accepting the failure rates we pay for with our tax dollars. Could, one day, the national guard become home to our yoots? It appears that it would solve a lot of problems. And, then the phoney credentialing problems, currently handicapping our middle class ... might see brighter solutions, ahead?

Meanwhile we just gotta keep building lots of prisons.

[Alvaro]

You mention being stuck on Spanish, and it ocurrs to me that people are so quick to see the harm done by companies who hire illegals; however, there is a paralel there with the language. As a capitalist nation we have the tendency to adapt and try to profit off of immigrants and language groups (A la "se habla espanol") rather than stand back think, "Is this really what is best for our country? Are we making it easier for those who don't want to learn English? And worse, are we making harder for those who do?"