JoeB131
Diamond Member
- Jul 11, 2011
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The GOP will have dozens in the Senate and fifties in the House voting for it.
The bill is bi-partisan, and the GOP will remain viable as a national party because of it.
If the purpose of this bill is to make the GOP More appealling to Hispanics, it will fail.
If the purpose is to do the right thing with all these undocumented workers in limbo, meh... maybe.
The big problem I have with it is that it is making the same mistake that the 1986 bill made when we only had 3 million legal immigrants.
the first and foremost thing we have to address here is WHY we have an illegal alien problem. We have one because there are unpleasent jobs that Americans don't want to do for minimum wage or less.
You could get Americans to do them if you paid them a fair wage for it, but frankly, that would mean rich folks would have to give up their Dressage Ponies.
"I can't have illegals here, I'm running for office, for Pete's Sake!"
You could end the illegal problem in a year without giving one person amensty, and without building one mile of fence.
Simply go after the assholes that hire them. Make hiring them a more expensive proposition than hiring an American.