Immigration reform: What's 'moderate'?

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
December 21, 2009

With an advocate for illegal aliens staking out the far-left extreme of the immigration reform debate, the Obama administration's upcoming proposal will reveal much about what "moderate" and "bipartisan" mean to this White House.

A 700-page bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., would let illegals stay while seeking legalization, end all enforcement of federal immigration law by local police and strengthen oversight of border control agents to emphasize civil liberties.

Translation: amnesty. And that's why many consider this bill too liberal to pass.

Thus, how the administration bill -- which U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are expected to introduce early next year -- differs from the Gutierrez bill will speak volumes about what's "moderate" and "bipartisan" in the eyes of the left-leaning Obama White House.

Key will be whether it, too, proposes amnesty, which would allow illegals to keep and take jobs from millions of Americans as the economic recovery struggles to put them back to work.

Rep. Gutierrez's extreme bill makes the administration proposal look good to some by comparison. But amnesty is a bad idea, no matter what political label the Obama White House might try to slap on it.

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It's time to start "pressuring" Lindsey Graham!!!!!!