Thread: Navarrette: Moving Forward on Immigration Reform

Moving forward on immigration reform

UNION-TRIBUNE
May 20, 2007

Bipartisan efforts in the Senate have resulted in a compromise immigration reform package that reformers hope will eventually end up on President Bush's desk.

The hours leading up to the announcement Thursday produced an unexpected twist: A provision that was supposed to be controversial wasn't, and something expected to be a no-brainer turned into a sticking point.

Political observers had predicted that the main stumbling block to a compromise would be the thorny question of what to do with estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the United States. Since a mass deportation is impractical and futile, the most popular choices are: (a) offer illegal immigrants a conditional path to earned legal status; or (b) make jobs so difficult to get that they – don't laugh – self-deport.

I shouldn't mock. Why not require illegal immigrants to take over the chore of policing themselves? We outsource everything else.

The debate was supposed to be over the question of what to do with workers already here. Yet the real point of contention turned out to be a White House proposal to import an additional 400,000 temporary “guest workersâ€

...controversial wasn't, and something expected to be a no-brainer turned into a sticking point.

Could it be that these politicians aka representatives are out of touch with the citizen voters?

Dixie

Republicans must see the writing on the wall. Americans have warmed up to the idea of giving illegal immigrants a chance to earn legal status. Look at the polls. There's been a radical shift in public opinion since this debate first started nearly six years ago. In 2001, when President Bush floated the idea of legalizing the undocumented, polls showed about two-thirds of Americans opposed to the idea. Now, surveys show as much as 78 percent willing to go along with a conditional path to legal status.

Is this on another planet

Dixie wrote:

Could it be that these politicians aka representatives are out of touch with the citizen voters?

Of course they are, but Naverrette would never tell the truth about that.

Originally Posted by MW

Dixie wrote:

Could it be that these politicians aka representatives are out of touch with the citizen voters?

Of course they are, but Naverrette would never tell the truth about that.

MW,

We know he's slanted and spins in the wrong direction.

Dixie

Navarrette is simply a mouthpiece for La Raza. He's about as irrelevant as George Bush.

Navarrette and LaRaza and all their racist supporters care only about LATINOS or is it HISPANICS or is it MEJICANOS?

Were the majority of illegals "white", there would be cries for DIVERSITY and shouting down this de facto discrimination in favor of Latinos/Mexicans...

Or maybe it got tired of waiting for a realistic counterproposal from the radical restrictionists on the right who offer sound-bites in place of solutions.

Geez....this guy is very melodramatic, don't you think? "Radical Restrictionists?" Get real, Navarette.