Immigration has once again risen to the very front of debate within American policy. A bill that initially looked ready to pass with the support of many influential Senators including Kennedy, Feinstein, McCain, and Kyl now appears to be on its last breath as both the far left and the far right have successfully derailed many of its key amendments.
The defeat of this bill signals potential backlash against many in the GOP. Not only does this reveal how weak President Bush is right now on domestic issues, many conservatives are up in arms that the GOP would even consider passing this legislation. Meanwhile in the middle of all of this, the New York Times is reporting the growing support of Hispanics to the Democratic party as America's next biggest voting bloc is showing signs that it will be a strong Democratic supporter for years to come. Just as the GOP lost the African American vote because they failed to understand the issues that mattered to them, so the GOP will lose the Hispanic block because once again their ignorance is blinding us to truly helping these people.
This example also reveals the danger of the far left and the far right. When both sides become stubbornly entrenched, nothing ever happens. Radical politics should have no place in America, but yet it still triumphs in instances such as these.
Conservatives simply enjoy whining. They whine when Mexicans come here. They whine when jobs go oversees because there aren't enough Americans to fill them. Then they whine that Mexicans do not integrate ignoring the fact that the status quo today prevents illegals from integrating. One can only imagine how many more elections conservatives will lose before they get the point.
The only solution to the problem of illegal immigration is deportation or integration. You can't have it both ways. Deportation is a dangerous and unrealistic idea. Integration can be achieved, as it is achieved with legal immigrants. For some reason that is a hard concept for many conservatives to understand.
I have never read so much racist and bigoted ideas flowing from the blogs and articles of conservatives coming from this debate. Today I am ashamed to call myself a conservative. America can only look to darker days the minute we cross the bridge into irrelevance from issues that matter to the American people.
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Wow, Matt, that was really well written - it read like a professional article on politics, I'm very impressed.
One question, though, and I'm just asking because I really don't know, not because I'm trying to be difficult: why is deportation a dangerous idea?
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