Which is why I hope those Republicans (like McCain) who keep pushing comprehensive immigration reform will back off. It isn’t that changes can’t or shouldn’t be made to the immigration laws. Secure the borders first. They keep promising to secure the borders as part of immigration reform but it never happens. Secure the borders first. Then and only then look at what can and should be changed about the immigration system one item at a time. No more multi-thousand page “comprehensive” reform packages that try (and fail) to fix multiple things at the same time. Xcor has a strategy of “build a little, test a little” until you get it right. They should do the same thing with the laws – make small changes, implement, observe the results, refine until you get it right.
My wife is a legal immigrant. She jumped through all of the hoops to come to this country legally and become a productive, taxpaying citizen. To those pushing radical immigration reform, people like my wife who followed the rules are chumps.
Nationally the Republicans got 36 percent of the Hispanic vote and 41 percent of the male Hispanic vote. They even won the Asian vote and the Native American vote.
Given that Republicans only got 8 percent of the Black vote, this means that Democrats will need three Hispanics to replace each Black to get the same gain. (To go up 100 votes against a Republican this cycle would have required 119 Blacks or 357 Hispanics, which is exactly a 1 to 3 ratio.)
Obama is threatening Congress with amnesty, saying he’ll grant it by fiat if they don’t give it to him in a bill. I think the GOP should compromise and author an amnesty bill, which should read “We, in Congress assembled, hereby offer you amnesty, Mr. President. The ball is in your court.”
In some room in DC, McConnell and Boehner are talking.
“See?” says one, it doesn’t matter which, “The Democrats didn’t pass it, and they went down in flames. The same will happen to us if WE don’t pass it!”
Which is why I hope those Republicans (like McCain) who keep pushing comprehensive immigration reform will back off. It isn’t that changes can’t or shouldn’t be made to the immigration laws. Secure the borders first. They keep promising to secure the borders as part of immigration reform but it never happens. Secure the borders first. Then and only then look at what can and should be changed about the immigration system one item at a time. No more multi-thousand page “comprehensive” reform packages that try (and fail) to fix multiple things at the same time. Xcor has a strategy of “build a little, test a little” until you get it right. They should do the same thing with the laws – make small changes, implement, observe the results, refine until you get it right.
My wife is a legal immigrant. She jumped through all of the hoops to come to this country legally and become a productive, taxpaying citizen. To those pushing radical immigration reform, people like my wife who followed the rules are chumps.
Nationally the Republicans got 36 percent of the Hispanic vote and 41 percent of the male Hispanic vote. They even won the Asian vote and the Native American vote.
Given that Republicans only got 8 percent of the Black vote, this means that Democrats will need three Hispanics to replace each Black to get the same gain. (To go up 100 votes against a Republican this cycle would have required 119 Blacks or 357 Hispanics, which is exactly a 1 to 3 ratio.)
Obama is threatening Congress with amnesty, saying he’ll grant it by fiat if they don’t give it to him in a bill. I think the GOP should compromise and author an amnesty bill, which should read “We, in Congress assembled, hereby offer you amnesty, Mr. President. The ball is in your court.”
In some room in DC, McConnell and Boehner are talking.
“See?” says one, it doesn’t matter which, “The Democrats didn’t pass it, and they went down in flames. The same will happen to us if WE don’t pass it!”
The other nods sagely.
Gotta send that to Chris Muir over at
Day by Day Cartoon
I think he’d appreciate the material.
I am not worthy.