Immigration: Bush / Kennedy II

Update: Highlights and text of proposed immigration bill here.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. There's a tremendous and perhaps even sad irony in the current immigration reform effort being another Bush/Kennedy deal.

The last time they got together they promised no child would be left behind as regards education. Yet, census data released just yesterday makes it extremely clear that immigration, illegal or not, is currently the greatest challenge to our national education system, a system that continues to fail despite Bush Kennedy I, otherwise known as The No Child Left Behind Act.

So now, what? The heck with the children, we can't leave any illegal alien behind, so schools will just have to suffer the burden? Despite some success, NCLB isn't close to accomplishing what it was supposed to do. Combined, these two efforts make very little sense.

I've been posting against this immigration deal today. After reading the NY Times article, I may reconsider, provided we apply one simple test.

The legislation, as explained by the senators, is “comprehensive” enough to require 380 pages, Mr. Specter noted. He said that illegal aliens would have to earn their right to be on the path to citizenship and would have to go to “the end of the line,” bureaucratically speaking.

Illegal aliens should be given seven hours to read the legislation and one hour to state clearly what it means. If that's unfair, as an alternative, I'd support the immediate deportation of any elected citizen-idiot who thinks you can accomplish anything, let alone clearly convey and implement it, based upon a 380 page bill that, according to Harry Reid, is only a starting point.

Mr. Reid praised the work of the Senate negotiators and said their agreement “can serve as a starting point".

What we may really need in this country is a please leave the career politicians behind act aka term limits. Michelle has a poll for reacting to the Kennedy/Bush deal.

Comments

[Cocoliso]

I completely agree. It will never work. Here's why
http://www.cocoliso.us/blog/entry/2007/5/17/why_immigration_reform_won%27t_work

[nowingker]

Isn't this the third 'let's make all the illegals here now legal' and then stop illegal immigration in the future round?

When at first you don't succeed, try, try, again?

[templar knight]

Hmm....the Goths, Huns, Vandals, Visagoths and various and sundry Germanic and Asiatic tribes have now crossed the Rio Grande...uh, Danube, and are now threatening the existence of the Americans...uh, Romans. Did that come out right?

[seekeronos]

Round 4 will be to extend automatic citizenship and full benefits to anyone who steps foot into the USA.

[Phoenix]

TK,

You stole my thoughts as I watched Brit tonight. This is just history's inevitable progression in fast-forward.

[Tom Smith]

The answer to the problem of illegal aliens is so simple it is a crying shame. Fine employers who hire the illegals and they will stop coming over the border! Fine them heavily for each alien they find. We all know they are here for the money and we let them keep coming for their cheap labor. It is like children with a cookie jar. Take out all the cookies and they will stop coming for one. The politicians want to dance all around the issue because they want the Hispanic vote and we will stand around and let them spend billions of our dollars when we know it will not solve the problem. Solve the simple problem and spend the billions of dollars on more important issues like the healthcare crisis in this country.