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Tue Feb 02, 2010 at 12:15:32 PM EST
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There are numerous reasons why it would be wise for Washington to address the nation's failed immigration policies sooner rather than later and finally fix a system that no one on either end of the political spectrum believes is either functioning properly or serving the best interests of the people . Even though studies show that reforming immigration would be a boost to the economy at a time when it could surely use one, and human rights issues make reforming the system a moral imperative, many still believe that it's an issue too politically hot to handle.
Since nothing yet has provided the requisite motivation to those in Washington to move forward and tackle reform, it's time to start to look at it through a prism they can understand: Pure Machiavellian political calculation.
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 16:39:37 PM EDT
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 IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT The DREAM Act, I want to introduce you to the legislation, fight, and arguments. There's really no need for me to try and explain it because some compas have poured hours and hours of work into making cases, offering links, and organizing already. I'm just going to write at the moment to say I do support it (despite the fact that I don't support creating new ways for our war machine to suck up more mexicano-or other-lives) and I'm going to paste some links and writing from Dream Activist as well as Blogmigo Kyle from Citizen Orange.
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Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 12:26:12 PM EDT
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Dear Senator Feingold:
I've written to you many times, with the help of organizations such as the ACLU, MoveOn.org, and Amnesty International, but today I am writing to you myself about an issue very close to me that I hope will gain your immediate attention and commitment.
I'm sure you are aware of what's being called the biggest immigration raid in U.S. history, which took place on May 12 in Postville, Iowa. I had the remarkable experience of visiting Postville just yesterday, and I talked with family members of some of the workers who have been detained. Many of the them have not had the opportunity to communicate with their imprisoned family members, and many don't know where their family members are being held. Those arrested were treated with terrible harshness; both their hands and their feet were shackled, as though they represent some dire physical threat. Many are bruised, many were sworn and cursed at by ICE enforcement officers, and one woman was frantic because her husband did not have any shoes in prison and she wasn't allowed to bring him any.
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Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 23:30:00 PM EST
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 Early on in the Republican nominating process, John McCain raised the ire of much of his party when during a debate he admonished his fellow candidates for their tough stance on the issue of immigration by reminding them that "we're all God's children" and that each immigrant community had added to the vibrancy of American culture.
Yet, while appearing to take the high ground on immigration, McCain has been moving his position further to the right throughout the entire campaign season. As a recent, rather fawning, AP article pointed out; "Once a crusader for offering the nation's roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants a way to get legal status, McCain now says his first priority is fortifying U.S. borders".
Listen to McCain's speeches or look on his campaign web site now, and there's little mention of the fight to give illegal immigrants a way to stay in the U.S. lawfully. He instead emphasizes border security - the catch phrase of conservatives who scorned his earlier proposals.
...McCain told congressional Republicans in a closed-door meeting recently that he had been badly bruised by his push for immigration reform and had learned the hard way that sealing the border should be his priority.
Republicans who support McCain say he has no choice but to abandon his past approach on immigration in favor of one that causes less consternation among conservatives virulently opposed to providing undocumented people with legal status.
"What kind of an idiot can't figure out the route that you took didn't work? You don't keep charging the center line when you're getting your head bashed in, and John was on this," said former Sen. Trent Lott, R- Miss.
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But it now appears that Republicans will be putting McCain's new-found conservatism to the test.
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Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 03:09:48 AM EST
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 By all accounts, the failure of the "immigration issue" to deliver at the polls for the Republican Party should have sounded the death knell for any attempts at passing get-tough type legislation in Washington before this year's election cycle was over.
With McCain as the presumptive nominee, one would think that down-ticket Republicans wouldn't want to re-hash the "immigration wars" and put their candidate in a position where he would have to once again revisit the issue.
But then again, that would assume that politics is based upon logic and McCain isn't more that willing to even further pander to anti-immigrant sentiment despite his previous record.
Facing the specter of having to run on their accomplishments over the last eight years, nervous Republicans are scrambling for an issue to distract the electorate from their records. With that in mind, The House Immigration Reform Caucus, now under the of leadership Brian Bilbray, an ex- lobbyist for the hate group FAIR, has gone back to beat a dead horse in an attempt to get an election year distraction on the Congressional agenda.
Back in November, Bilbray, with the help of freshman, red-state Democrat, Heath Shuler, introduced the newest incarnation of the House's failed enforcement-only style legislation; The Secure America through Verification and Enforcement ("SAVE Act") of 2007 (H.R. 4088).
Normally, a bill that would put the jobs of over 12.7 million US citizens in direct jeopardy, force a possible 2.5 million a year to be classified as unauthorized to work, criminalize the work of churches and humanitarian groups - mandating penalties up to 5 years imprisonment, and force all local law enforcement to become immigration agents.. all in the name of attrition and deportation.. would be rejected out of hand by Congressional Democrats.
But, thanks to the work of Rahm Emanuel and other quisling Dems, it's moving closer to enactment.
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