Thread: Immigration Reform Deal Unlikely

Immigration Reform Deal Unlikely

Ever since Democrats won control of Congress, the conventional wisdom in Washington has been that President Bush and congressional Democrats would cut a deal on immigration reform. However, the DC-insider newspaper Roll Call reports this morning, "with Republicans looking to regain control of the Senate and Democrats hoping to pad their majority in 2008, neither party appears inclined to make the political sacrifices necessary to pass a broad immigration bill this year," and all sides "may be content to simply duel to a rhetorical draw." GOP and Democratic "aides contend that both parties may be best served by a political impasse over the issue, since such a scenario would allow Members to show they are standing firm on the hot-button issue while avoiding compromises that may upset base voters."

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_88/news/17313-1.html

I don't doubt this. They will talk about this till 2090! By then we'll have so many people here, that the UN will round us up and put us in their small apts., in large cities!

Thats why we need to march this year before we Americans get to far down the food chain

The Time Is At Hand

this is not a good thing. this is a defacto win for open borders. we need to enforce the laws on the books, we don't need new laws!!!

Call me crazy, but they will delay this as long as possible until they can say, "Oh we now have 60 million illegals and we can't do anything about it so accept the amnesty and shut up!"
But I tend to be more cynical at times than most.

I'm no political strategist, but one would think if the Reps were serious about taking back their lost majority, they would make a harder stance against illegal immigration and take more aggressive actions.

Originally Posted by sippy

Call me crazy, but they will delay this as long as possible until they can say, "Oh we now have 60 million illegals and we can't do anything about it so accept the amnesty and shut up!"
But I tend to be more cynical at times than most.

I'm no political strategist, but one would think if the Reps were serious about taking back their lost majority, they would make a harder stance against illegal immigration and take more aggressive actions.

I don't think this is cynical at all; in fact, I suspect this has always been the back up plan. De facto amnesty through a policy of inaction and indifference. Given our government has chosen to ignore the ever-increasing numbers of illegal entrants to the tune of thousands a day, what other conclusion could one draw? And you're right--at some point the numbers will become so overwhelming that it will seem only logical to throw up one's hands and say, "welcome, one and all". That is, if you subscribe to the idea that this all occurred independent of human design; that these millions simply dropped from the sky having no nation of origin, and that we're all Americans.

The states will continue to enact strict immigration laws. Some states laws are even stricter than proposed in Washington. Don't forget Mohawk lost their appeal and the displaced workers are now sueing against RICO violations. Judicial watch is challenging special order 40. Texans are marching against the NAFTA highway. Their is more than one way to skin a cat. Where closing in onthem too!

Americans are waking up and will take back their country.

Originally Posted by sippy

Call me crazy, but they will delay this as long as possible until they can say, "Oh we now have 60 million illegals and we can't do anything about it so accept the amnesty and shut up!"
But I tend to be more cynical at times than most.

I think you are correct. When Bush first proposed whatever he proposed in 2001, it was shot down. Then, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, between 2001-2005, 850,000 new illegal aliens arrived per year.
(http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/61.pdf) and see page 2 (not ii).

As time passes, deportation becomes more difficult.