Comments on: Immigration Bill Dies, and Some Rightwing Bloggers Hurl Abuse

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By: JDZ

JDZ — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:21:09 +0000

We reformed welfare back in the 1990s. Illegal aliens overwhelmingly come here to work, not to go on relief. And when they work, they pay taxes like everybody else, paying for the same services everybody else pays for and gets.

“Enforcing the law” is not a practicable solution. We don’t want to make this country into more of a police state than it already is. We haven’t got the stomach to kick in doors, hand cuff women and children, and to forcibly deport 12 million people for doing our most difficult and unpleasant jobs for us at the lowest wages of anybody in the country.

It will never happen.

By: Cro

Cro — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:20:03 +0000

“Our nativist law-and-order simpletons won one”

Wow..Do you sound like a liberal…name calling rather than arguing the position. The fact of the matter is that this bill was de-facto amnesty. All we need to do is enforce the laws already on the books and the jobs (and incentive to stay here) dry up. Does that mean our lettuce will cost more? Sure…but if you think that educating, medicating, and policing 12-20 million illegals doesn’t have a cost..you are smoking some Mexican Gold.

By: Scott D

Scott D — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:43:27 +0000

Coalitions are almost always necessary to bring legislation through the self-serving weanies that occupy the Congress. In this case those who were (rightly) afraid of what would likely result from such a convoluted and executionally unrealistic bill joined with those who want to stop immigration altogether and those who just don’t believe in rewarding lawbreakers in any way. On the other side was a coalition of those who saw legions of new government dependents (aka Democrat voters), one-worlders, and terminal do-gooders.
I worry that the latter coalition will become stronger in the near future and push through an even less sensible construct. Possibly this will have turned out to be an opportunity missed in retrospect.
What Congress and much of the public refuse to believe is that market forces will ultimately prevail. Somehow, some way. You cannot effectively thwart the compelling need for more workers in this country no matter how many words you put into a piece of legislation. We must facilitate a relatively free flow of workers to continue the rapid growth to which we have become accustomed. It does not follow that citizenship must be conveyed to every new worker without qualification. We have the right, for instance, to imagine what a bi-lingual, balkanized country would look like and reject that vision.