Thread: Obama's immigration mishmash - NAVARRETTE

Obama's immigration mishmash

By Ruben Navarrette
2:00 a.m. April 5, 2009

What a mishmash the Obama administration has made of its position on immigration reform.

The president recently promised the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he'd tackle immigration reform this year and argued that legalizing the undocumented improves the economic power of all workers. But more recently, [b]Vice President Joe Biden told a group of Central American leaders that the economic crisis makes this a bad time to push the subject. “It's difficult to tell a constituency – while unemployment is rising, they're losing their jobs and their homes – that what we should do is in fact legalize (illegal immigrants) and stop all deportation,â€

Gosh another surprise article by Navarrette who seemingly now "Gets It".

I wonder why he has changed his view in a positive way ?

How pathetic. Mexico is never going to be a player on the world stage as long as it treats its own people as a threat to the nation's economy instead of what they are: an economic engine.

I think that Mr. Navarette is converging towards the position of people like Arias-King.

Talk about being out of touch. Members of Congress are kidding themselves if they think that most Americans – recession or no recession – are going to be fighting immigrants over the chance to scrape the bottom of the barrel by doing jobs that are dirty, dangerous or demeaning.

We haven't hit bottom with this economy. I beg to differ with him on who's out of touch!

Sooo...these so-called "bottom of the barrel" jobs this putz is talking about. Would that be the $28 an hour welding jobs, the roofing jobs, the drywalling jobs?? Which bottom of the barrel jobs is he referring to that we Americans won't compete for?