rssPolitical Benefits of Immigration Gridlock
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 10:11 am
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Immigration reform is impossible without some Republican support, but Democrats have an incentive to keep the issue in play anyway. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid responded this weekend to questions about when he would push for the DREAM Act, legislation that would help some undocumented students become citizens. The act has the backing of immigration advocates as an alternative to comprehensive reform, but Reid told liberal bloggers at Netroots Nation he does not have enough votes to get past a filibuster. “I’m not going to do the DREAM Act unless I have 60 votes,” he said. “It would be unfair to raise the hopes of all of those young people.”
The gridlock may be frustrating for those who want to see immigration reform pass, but it also has political benefits — particularly for Democrats hoping to win over Latino voters, as Scott Wong explains at Politico:
“If you’ve been milking it for all its worth as a political issue, you don’t want [immigration] to go away,” said former Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.), who served more than 20 years in the House and was part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who pitched an unsuccessful immigration bill in 2005. …
One Democratic House aide said a handful of Republicans have launched their political careers by talking tough on illegal immigration.
“The hardest-line immigration hawks say they are for legal immigration but fight like hell against anything that resembles legal immigration,” said the aide, who specializes in immigration issues. “It’s a good political strategy, but it’s not a good immigration strategy. That is part of the problem that has led to gridlock.”
But President Barack Obama and other Democrats also have an incentive to keep the issue in play: They want Republicans to keep alienating Hispanic voters.
“There are always politicians who see this as a good political football vs. a policy problem to be solved,” the aide said. “They would rather have the fight over immigration to fire up Latino voters than jump into this with both feet.”
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The majority of the American people are probing with this simple question? If the enactment of SB 1070, Arizona's policing law, is a non-negotiable interference of Federal law relating to states right to protect itself. 1. Does this law causes “irreparable harm? 2. Does it circumvent federal law? These are the arguments of the Department of Justice having filed this complaint in federal court. As I perceive it, the only person who comes under suspicion, are people who are avoiding coming into contact with a police officer. If you happened to get pulled over, they are first going to run the cars plates. Then cross referencing with your driver’s license, then if everything falls into line with names and addresses and no bench warrant is out for your arrest–then you drive away. The state of Arizona has built SB1070 on the foundations of federal law, so what’s the big issue here? The material issue has absolutely nothing to do with the “Rule of Law?” and everything to do with politics.
Same as the federal government conveniently overlooking Sanctuary States and cities, because California cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, Denver, Colorado, New York City are all in contravention to the 1986 immigration act. Sanctuary cities policies were first adopted in the Liberal metropolis in 1979 Los Angeles, to prevent police from inquiring about the immigration status of arrestees. “Special order 40,” states: “Officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person. Officers shall neither arrest nor book persons for violation of title 8, section 1325 of the United States Immigration code (Illegal Entry).” Equally to blame and even promote the law are numerous Governors, Mayors and an assortment of Police Chiefs and city managers.
Some of the other main American cities are Chicago; Santa Ana; San Diego; Salt Lake City; Dallas; Houston; Austin; Detroit; Jersey City; Minneapolis; Miami; Portland; Maine; Baltimore; Seattle; Portland; New Haven; and Washington, D.C. These cities have adopted “sanctuary” ordinances banning municipal employees and law enforcement from inquiring people about their immigration status. In the foul shadow of this controversial rule has arisen, the deaths of innocent citizens at the hands of illegal aliens that the Liberal media prefers to keep silent and out of the headlines. In March 2008, Jamiel Shaw Jr, Los Angeles; In July 2008 Anthony Bologna and his two sons in San Francisco;
On July 31, 2008, 14-year-old Ivan Miranda, San Francisco; In October 2008, Phoenix, Arizona, Shane Figueroa; February 3, 2009, Denver, Colorado leaving three people dead and two injured. By no means is this the whole list, but if you dig deep on the internet you will be amazed or more likely furious of the lives taken by illegal aliens; specially drunken drivers. These deaths caused by gang members, drunken drivers and multiple border entry, habitual criminal aliens, never become public knowledge. Only the deaths of illegal aliens seem to get thorough publicity from the far left press over the years. Another statistic is thousands of incurable business owners who evade the law, knowingly hiring illegal workers and having never joined other felons in prison? An additional fact that the border fence was never, ever completed and still remains a single length fence, not—TWO–as existed in the original 2006 Secure Border Act.
Even E-Verify, a durable enforcement tool designed in President Bush's administration has been conceded by Nevada's Harry Reid, who tried to thrash it in the Senate chamber. As an outsider I comprehend nothing but different presidencies, either cutting subsidies or just plain lying about immigration enforcement. America! We have a colossal problem that has become a national hemorrhaging of our hospitals, schools and welfare benefits being consumed by illegal recipients. Yet the federal government has failed dismally in its responsibility to defend this country from enemies domestic and foreign. Your vote is important to Washington’s Senate and Congressman, so bombard them that you are adamantly against any type of Amnesty. You want them to secure the border and do it now, because Mexico’s blood bath could easily erupt here. Call the Washington switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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