Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Immigration Shifts Could Provide Opening for Compromise
This is an article from the New York Times, talking about how over the past couple years the number undocumented immigrants from Mexico crossing the border has decreased, ans how that could help open compromises for the immigration plan. The are many reasons to why the number of crossing the Mexican border illegally. Like for example the number of people at the age of 30 are declining and most of the people who come illegally are below the age of 30. Not only that but the improvement of security also helped to the decline of this number. Personally after reading this article, I think there is a good chance that something related with the immigration will be passed.
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I think that there is a obvious and urgent need for immigration reform. Even on the republican side, it would be in there best interest to pass immigration reform, since they lost 71% of the Latino vote. The system is so messed up. Why would kids who were taken into this country as babies be deported? Why should a grandmother who has lives in this country for 20 years be deported? We need to tighten the border, and also allow a pathway for immigrants here now to become citizens as long as they pay taxes, pay a fine and learn English. This is Obama's current immigration plan. This whole idea of "self deportation is just ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sebastian. It is ridiculous. The only thing I disagree with is how many are coming over into the United States. No offense, but we don't need more people to come into this country because we are having difficulty with the people in the country now. I feel really bad saying that, but it's true. I have said this many times, we need to fix what we have in the country now, not just keep brining in more. If the immigration does not get changed, there will be similar problems in the future.
ReplyDeleteThough the number of illegal immigrants is decreasing, I'm sure that there are still a unmanageable amount still crossing our borders. Immigration laws have to be passed with the large number of illegal immigrants anyway, so this'll only help if anything. I know Republicans are already desperate to pass a bill to gain the votes of Latinos, as Sebastian said, so I see a bill being passed in the near future.
ReplyDeleteLet's be real here, no one is going to self-deport themselves back to a country riddled with enough gun related deaths to fill the Grand Canyon no matter how poor the US economy is. A bill will clearly be passed eventually, but it'll be interesting to see how far across the aisle Republicans will be willing to reach in order to make themselves more attractive to the latino vote.
ReplyDeleteIt is never been more likely that an immigration compromise will be passed. The 2012 elections opened the GOP's eyes that they have to change their approach towards Hispanics in order to survive the changing demographics of this country. The flow of undocumented immigrants in this country has slowed, so the focus is more on those already in this country. The best way to solve this problem and help the millions of people living in fear of being deported become productive citizens is to streamline the legal immigration process and then to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in this country. If people want to come to this country and enrich our culture and economy why should we be stopping them?
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