I just don’t understand why the big push for amnesty when actual citizens are having a hard time. If the people want it so bad please move into a neighborhood with them and live there for a few yrs.
The Dems will push amnesty because they know it’s the perfect wedge issue that could stop the Republicans from benefitting from the Obamacare fiasco. Opposing illegal immigration is an issue which is supported by a clear majority of Americans. It is one of the few areas where conservatives and blue collar Democrats are in substantial agreement and an issue that can even pry black voters away from the Democrats. And it’s the one issue where the mainstream of the Republican party is at odds with the elitist leadership that supports amnesty either from a misguided notion that it will curry favour with Hispanic voters or that it will provide a continued source of cheap labour for corporate America.
If the GOP had unity on this issue the 2014 mid-term elections would make 2010 look like a good day for the Dems. Unfortunately, the amnesty issue will enflame the Republican civil war and may let the Dems snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. The GOP-e does not care about America or about the Republican party - it cares only about pleasing their money masters.
“I just don’t understand why the big push for amnesty when actual citizens are having a hard time. If the people want it so bad please move into a neighborhood with them and live there for a few yrs.”
Amnesty has nothing to do with the “hard time” citizens are experiencing. The fact is that without mass immigration (legal or otherwise), whole areas would be depopulated and whole school districts would close. The government bureaucracy (in particular, the teachers’ unions) would never allow that to happen. The immigrants aren’t here as workers; they are here as consumers (not just of goods, but of gubmint services). Without them, the poverty and education industries collapse.