(cue Roy Clark singing "Thank God & Greyhound!")
Posted on 06/24/2016 5:03:57 AM PDT by simpson96
ON ONE level, it’s unsurprising that the Supreme Court deadlocked 4 to 4, after an appeals court split 2 to 1, in considering President Obama’s sweeping executive action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. As a legal matter, this was not an easy call.
What makes the outcome so depressing for the country, and such a standard-bearer for failed governance, is that as a policy matter, it shouldn’t be hard at all. Immigrants have been and continue to be, on balance, an overwhelmingly positive force for the nation’s social and economic health. It would be in their interest and the nation’s to regularize the status of workers and families who, as a practical matter, are not going away. There was a time when politicians of both parties understood this and actually came close to legislating a solution. But loss of nerve and an impulse to torpedo compromise in search of maximal political advantage put a solution out of reach, and here we are: Millions of people remain condemned to live in the shadows, and the U.S. economy cannot take advantage of the talents and energies of all the nation’s inhabitants.
surge in immigration from Mexico around the turn of the century was the precipitating event. As Mexico’s economy improved, the surge slowed and even reversed, but 11 million or so undocumented immigrants (by no means all Mexican, of course) remain. A Senate compromise, supported for a time by Republicans such as John McCain (Ariz.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), as well as by most Democrats, would have allowed these undocumented people to stay if they learned English, paid taxes and followed the law. Stricter border security and penalties against employers of illegal immigrants would have discouraged future surges. A win all around.
House Republicans, though, refused to consider the compromise.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Maybe they should bask in the sunshine of their home countries, rather than hiding in this shadowy land.
Hardly. The "social health" of the country is immeasurably injured by the tolerance, perhaps even promotion, of lawbreaking - not just in the illegal presence, but also in the personally devastating identity theft industry. WAPO is full of excrement.
Undocumented immigrants is polite society speak for slave labor.
In summarizing the Gang of Eight bill, the Post continues in the tradition of deception. They pretend like the future enforcement measures and punitive actions will be carried out, and of course, they completely leave out how the bill would have massively increased (already too-high) levels of legal immigration.
It would have at least doubled legal immigration. Yet none of the Gang members, or supporters like Obama and the media ever spoke about that aspect of the bill? What is that? Could it be that they know that polls consistently show that a majority of Americans oppose increasing legal immigration, and that often a majority or plurality favor reducing it?
“undocumented immigrants” is Orwellian doublespeak. it’s designed to make it sound like they are victims of some sort of bureaucratic screw-up with their paperwork.
they are invaders. they are criminals. they are NOT undocumented immigrants.
and since when did we all agree that deporting them is not an option? i say we round them all up and kick them out.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
“They are not undocumented immigrants. They are criminal invaders.”........
Dropping the politically correct bull crap, that previous statement pretty well defines it, wouldn’t you say?
Come here legally or get out. Our ancestors had to go through the process and so should they.
If they are so valuable, they should go home and fix their own countries.
All illegals, regardless of country of origin should be deported to Syria or Iran, their choice.
In the shadows? Seems to me they are front and center at many mob scenes destroying property and attacking people while waving the flag of THEIR country!
Well, they can always return to where they are supposed to be.
it’s not hard to find illegals. city police departments know exactly where they are, but are prohibited from doing anything about them until they commit OTHER crimes.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/01/illegal-immigrant-gangs-commit-most-u-s-crime/
Stop ALL immigration, legal or otherwise.....we have enough people and we have enough problems.
Deport illegals!
Expel muslims!
So, they are here illegally.
They should be in the shadows.
If they don’t like living in the shadows move back to the places where there aren’t any.
Get them back to Oaxaca...
Nice gloom-and-doom headline writers you got there, Bezos old boy.
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