Thread: Comprehensive immigration reform is dead -- and the left is

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011 07:01 ET
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Comprehensive immigration reform is dead -- and the left is to blame
BY MICHAEL LIND

AP/Ralph Freso
Comprehensive immigration reform is dead. For the foreseeable future, there is no chance that Congress will pass a grand bargain on immigration reform like the one that fell apart in 2007 including a mass amnesty or path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants already in the U.S. Nor is there any chance that the Dream Act, which would provide citizenship for many illegal immigrants as long as they attended college or served in the U.S. military, will be enacted into law. The Democrats could not pass the unpopular Dream Act even when they controlled both houses of Congress last December. Their cynical purpose in reintroducing it now is to play wedge issue politics with Latino voters in the run-up to the 2012 elections.

As in an old Perry Mason TV serial, or an Agatha Christie novel, the victim was murdered by multiple killers. The greatest wound may have been inflicted by the Great Recession. With mass unemployment expected to last for years to come, it is hard to imagine public support for an amnesty for the 12 million or so illegal immigrants in the U.S., particularly if it were not accompanied by adequate enforcement and encouraged a new wave of law-breaking by millions of foreign nationals in anticipation of future amnesties.

But even before the world economy collapsed in 2008, public opinion toward illegal immigration was hardening on both sides of the Atlantic. The backlash against mass immigration, legal and illegal, has contributed to the implosion of center-left social democratic parties in Europe. One unacknowledged goal of the war in Libya is to prevent enormous numbers of North African refugees from seeking asylum in Europe.

In the U.S., America's neoliberal globalist establishment has completely failed in its effort to persuade America's populist, nationalist citizenry that preventing illegal immigration is racist and retrograde in the age of global markets. According to a September 2010 Quinnipiac poll, "stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration" beat "integrating illegal immigrants into American society" by 68-24, with 9 percent answering "don't know."

http://www.salon.com/news/immigration/? ... ation_left

And the liberal kids waiting for some "personally fulfilling, socially beneficial" public arena career are S.O.L.!! They are gonna have to get their hands dirty to survive-----unless mommy and daddy have a trust fund for them.

It dont only efect liberal kids it efects all kids.We all pay no matter what party we are.My hids are conservitives and their efected too.

Note the wording on the banner in the picture, "we are all the same"? Uh, no we are not! Most of us are either citizens or legal immigrants and the rest are illegal aliens. There is no comparing the latter to the former as "we are all the same".

Originally Posted by duckman

It dont only efect liberal kids it efects all kids.We all pay no matter what party we are.My hids are conservitives and their efected too.

Well, I hope they are willing and able to learn a vocation that involves sweat, toil and a lot of hard, manual work. Too many young people these days believe a "Job" is just something where you show up for who-knows-what and get a big check. I was a straight-A student, started college early but I've been doing rough, heavy construction work all my life. It's kept me in good shape, too.

Originally Posted by Captainron

Originally Posted by duckman

It dont only efect liberal kids it efects all kids.We all pay no matter what party we are.My hids are conservitives and their efected too.

Well, I hope they are willing and able to learn a vocation that involves sweat, toil and a lot of hard, manual work. Too many young people these days believe a "Job" is just something where you show up for who-knows-what and get a big check. I was a straight-A student, started college early but I've been doing rough, heavy construction work all my life. It's kept me in good shape, too.

ALL 5 ARE HARD WORKERS.I have 3 sons all of them FIREFIGHTERS 1 mows yards and lawn serevice on his days off 1 works as mechanic on his days off 1 works at a hospital e.r. on his days off.2 DAUGHTERS 1 works as regional manager for Cracker Barrel works 70 hours a week and studying to get her masters degree in psychology 1 daughter who is general manager for hotel chain manages 3 of them a week working 60 hours a week.I spent 30 years in military my dad worked construction till he was 65.Do i need to say more!!!!!OH yes i do my wife retired firefighter and on her days off flew on Life Net helocopter flying accident victims to hospitals as flight nurse.

This Party on the Tax Payer Dime is Over and I'm pointing the finger at the Republicans and the Democrat's

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

This Party on the Tax Payer Dime is Over and I'm pointing the finger at the Republicans and the Democrat's

ME TOO AIRBORNE.