Immigration Reform’s
Deal-Breaking Poison Pill
(Chuck Muth)
- Let’s
say there was an education reform bill proposed that gave liberals
everything
they ever wanted: Per-pupil spending would be doubled. As would the
salaries of every teacher. Mandatory pre-K schooling starting at age
two. Teacher tenure after just one year
in the classroom. No teacher
evaluations. No merit pay based on
student test scores. Mandatory
self-esteem classes in grades K-12.
And
no U.S. History!
Pure
liberal nirvana. However…
In
addition, every parent of any income level would be given a full voucher to send
their child to any private school of their choice, including Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry if that’s what they wanted.
A
deal-breaking poison pill.
Well,
a similar situation faces the United States Congress today as it relates to immigration.
Fact
is, Republicans are all for immigration reform.
Tighten up the borders. Tighten
up visa enforcement. Streamline the
process. Increase the number of work
permits. Even allow, with certain
conditions, persons who are presently living in the country illegally to remain
here legally without fear of deportation.
On
these aspects there is widespread agreement.
And a bill could be passed tomorrow. Immigration reform nirvana. However…
Allowing
most illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. legally isn’t enough for the
Left. No, they are insisting on granting
those who have broken into the country illegally full U.S. citizenship,
complete with voting rights that would effectively destroy the Republican Party
in many parts of the country.
A
deal-breaking poison pill.
And
now, in an effort to shame Republicans into swallowing this poison pill,
Democrats are trotting out kids as human political shields. For example, the campaign of Democrat
congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn is promoting a YouTube video of a
college student named Jose whose mom brought him into the U.S. from Mexico
illegally.
Jose
is upset that the current Democrat administration is deporting illegals, but
wants to blame Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nevada) for not supporting an immigration reform
bill that is weak on enforcement while nevertheless providing a path to
full-blown citizenship. Worse, Jose falsely
claims in his hostage-style video that Rep. Heck “arrested me and four other
friends for speaking our minds” at the congressman’s office.
Total
fabrication. It didn’t happen. Indeed the media exposed Jose’s
so-called protest as nothing more than a pre-planned, staged propaganda stunt in
which no one was “arrested.” The
agitators – “speaking their minds” with bullhorns inside the office, by the way
- were merely issued a citation for trespassing, an offense that apparently
runs in Jose’s family.
Let’s
face
it; Democrats don’t want real immigration reform. They want a
political issue. Pure cynical opportunism that does nothing to
fix the problem. Yet unsuspecting dupes
like Jose are falling for it.
Is this
any way to run a constitutional republic?
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