The Immigration Deal

The immigration deal announced in the Senate last week poses an excruciating choice. It is a good plan wedded to a repugnant one. Its architects seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise. They tried to bridge the chasm between brittle hard-liners who want the country to stop absorbing so many outsiders, and those who want to give immigrants -- illegal ones, too -- a fair and realistic ... Full Story »

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Jim Mac Donald
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by Jim Mac Donald - Oct. 1, 2008

The biggest problem is that, typically our Congress, forgets the past. This is amnisty, no question, just a longer "journey." We then slip in the "guest workers" who, after their two years will stay. So what is so good about all that. The most devious Senator on the hill, Schumer, supports this version. Congress rating is now lower than Bush's at 27%. Rightly so - no courage and little common sense. Control the border FIRST, then take on the balance of this huge problem. Just wait - this bill is over 1000 pages long and all we are hearing are the titles. Anyone ever heard "the devil is in the details?" Better read the entire tome before writing an opinion on it, and noone has done that yet - including Congress!

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