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Originally Posted by kane
the democrats are pushing for immigration reform which the Latinos want,
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The Democrats had the House, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and the White House for two years.
If they really wanted immigration reform they had ample opportunity to get it.
The simple fact is it's too good a wedge issue to beat the Republicans over the head with for them to ever even consider taking it off the table by passing what was one of candidate Obama's big campaign promises.
And the Republicans are idiots for not addressing this in the Congress now.
All they need to do in the House is amend and then pass the bill sent over by the Senate I think last year, change "pathway to citizenship" to "pathway to legal status" to avoid the amnesty argument (I was around in 86 and remember the unkept promises we were given then) strengthen the border security aspects superficially then send it back to the Senate and then watch Obama explain why he's vetoing it.
Because even though the Latino groups would probably grudgingly accept Permanent Resident status the Democrats want them to be able to vote because most of them will vote Democrat.
And the Republicans can say "we tried" and fingers will be pointed and nothing will change.
We have the Government we deserve
