President Obamas plan to bypass Congress in shielding millions of immigrants from deportation is not the best way to do immigration reform. But if confrontation is what it takes to get House Republicans off their rear ends and deal with the problem, so be it. They dont even have to work too hard. The Senate has already written a good bill and passed it with votes from both parties. Its a comprehensive approach offering a path to citizenship for most of the estimated 11 million people who came here illegally and beefing up enforcement of the law. The measure could have passed the House on a bipartisan basis, but Republican House Speaker John Boehner didnt want to offend a conservative base opposed to any kind of amnesty. Thus, he refused to take up the bill. So what we now have is an immigration system without the beefed-up enforcement. Written by Froma Harrop
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:46:28 +0000
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