Thread: Under The Bus

Under The Bus

Even with the Democratic majority, it appears that our
Legislative branch is paralysed and is unable to craft an
enlightened policy of welcoming immigrants - documented or
undocumented. Various provisions benefiting only legal
immigration have been held up to ensure that the pain of the
undocumented is spread over as many people as possible (thus
keeping hope alive for the advocates of the undocumented).
Further, rumor on the Hill has it that the Democratic leadership
is getting ready to support a Sensenbrenner-lite enforcement-only
bill, thus proving that immigration is far from dead in DC, and
that we may even have an immigration statute in an election year.
A punitive act by Congress on immigration would, so the reasoning
goes, defuse the immigration issue for the GOP, and thus help the
Democratic Party strengthen in the House and the Senate and
capture the Presidency next November. Those who expected better
from a Democratic Congress have been disappointed. The Democratic
leadership apparently does not want immigrants on the Democratic
bus, but under it.

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We don't ILLEGAL immigrants UNDER the bus.....we want them ON the bus, heading SOUTH!