The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
There is no WAY any reform bill will do what is best for the country.
It will either be an amnesty scheme to help officially legitimize a huge new Democratic voting base or the creation of a new National ID system so that everyone is recorded in a way social security could never dream of.
They will never enforce the law and seek to deport everyone who is here illegally. They will never do anything meaningful to secure the border. There is not political advantage to doing either of those things.
But there is a political opportunity in making the situation so completely problematic that voters will give up on the obvious solutions and will support blanket amnesty and / or national ID agendas in the name of reform.
If it were me I’d arrest every illegal upon detection and sentence them to 6 months of construction work on “the wall” and then deport them when their sentence is completed.
With the thousands of illegals who could easily be identified and arrested a wall that would be more secure than anything imagined by the DDR could be built within a year along the entire southern border.
But that is just one of the many reasons I’ll never hold political office.
I’d vote for Steyr in a heartbeat.
+1 yep!
This bill needs to go away simply because of the completely unrelated ammendments the libs are piling onto it.
I know that its normal to tie in completely useless crap to bills, but the garbage in this one makes me think the libs are doing it on purpose because either a) they are reverting back to their roots or b) they want to blame the republicans for a lack of “immigration reform.”
He’s got my vote.
I think the Republicans should tack on a repeal of the Hughes Amendment, the 1968 GCA, the 1989 EO import ban, the 1934 NFA AND the Income Tax and add in the Flat Tax and say that Democrats are against Immigration.
And the dems will vote for it because they will gain a huge majority and vote out the stuff they don’t like. I haven’t looked at the plan, but after they get it passed and get all these new voters, what is to stop them then from voting themselves all kinds of goodies?
When did this become adopt a Mexican ? Like no one else wants to come here? Why should they benefit from geography over sub-Saharan Africans or Indians- people who either live in areas far worse than Mexico or already speak English and are well educated?
You do understand that’s going to happen regardless, right? It’s just a matter of how long it takes, with a bill like this speeding up the process significantly, rather than taking the next two generations to achieve.
It’s so far beyond the inane partisan political party paradigm that most are so fixated on.
It’s part and parcel with the Globalists’ longer term scheme of a “borderless world”.
Yeah, so precious few of you ever delve deeply into that “dark, arcane world of tin foil-ism” but you guys are ALWAYS reacting - making you a hundred dollars and ten years too late to the party.
Carry on.
“One man with courage makes a majority.”