Watching Immigration reform is like watching a soccer
match. You feel like its going to
happen, you get a goal, you cheer, you hold your breath, and then, the
opportunity slips out from under your fingers.
So you gear up again, and repeat.
After about the sixth time, you give up.
I have been watching Immigration reform since the McCain
Kennedy bill since 2007. That bi
partisan bill by Senators John McCain ( R ) and then still alive, Senator Ted
Kennedy (D) was an excellent comprehensive bill, addressing both the legal and
illegal immigrants. But that bill, and
subsequently most bills died in either the Senate or the House.
Obama’s Immigration Executive Action is similarly
bipartisan. I hope it is implemented. But Immigration has become just a political
power play with no basis in it.
Republicans, aside from hoping that President Obama
will leave no lasting legacy, assumes that most illegal immigrants won’t vote
Republicans. The assumption is that just
rich people vote Republican. But people
vote with their social ideology rather than with their fiscal ideology. Thus Republican ideals of pro life or even
anti gay marriage will resonate with religious conservatives Latinos. Red states are not the rich ones.
Similarly Democrats assume that Business immigrants
won’t vote Democrat. But Silicon Valley
is solidly Democrat, so are most PhDs, or rich entertainment personnel. They espouse the more liberal social values.
I don’t believe that Comprehensive Immigration Reform
will become a reality in 2015. But I am really hoping that Obama’s Executive
Action will go through, and that Citizenship and Immigration Service will
promulgate regulation to make it a reality very soon.
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