Congress is currently convulsed in a titanic struggle over immigration reform… a topic that rarely cracks the top-10 list of top concerns for the American people, and never gets into the top 5. Border security polls far higher than anything else in the “comprehensive immigration reform” basket, particularly among those Americans who actually live along the border, but that’s the one thing the ruling class most certainly does NOT care about. The Senate just gunned down a resolution to put border security first. The gap between the ruling class agenda, and the things most Americans really care about, has never been more clear. If you’re a legal immigrant or native citizen, Congress has nothing to say to you right now. Not all of the floor speeches are being delivered in English. Democrats want their new imported Big Government-friendly voters. Republicans are terrified of alienating the Hispanic constituency in general. Business interests want the cheap labor. The media likes to tell simple stories about compassionate activists versus heartless racists. The permanent bureaucracy absolutely does not want to address a concrete problem like border security – the sort of endeavor at which it could be judged an objective failure. Yes, those business interests and the media are part of the ruling class. No one who spends time listening to big media stars talk about themselves can doubt that they see themselves that way, and quite a few of those media stars used to be government officials. Some of them hope to be government officials again. Big Business pays a great deal of money to obtain political influence, and Washington is quite happy to treat them as partners in government. Look at the relationship between the Obama Administration and companies like G.E. and Google. Besides the opportunity to alter the composition of the American electorate, the ruling class is concerned with the parts of immigration reform that would enhance its power. Border security requirements are a restriction – a task that must be accomplished, or there will be consequences. That’s no fun. But a ten-thousand page immigration bill with a pile of 200-page amendments that creates an entirely new class of citizenship, which must be interfaced with our titanic regulatory and welfare states in countless complicated ways? Now you’re talking!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:47:14 +0000
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