Deal on Immigration Reached
The Bush administration and a bipartisan group of senators reached agreement yesterday on a sprawling overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws that would bring an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants out of society’s shadows while stiffening border protections and cracking down on employers of undocumented workers.The delicate compromise, 380 pages long and three months in the making, represents perhaps the last opportunity for President Bush to win a major legislative accomplishment for his second term, and it could become the most significant revision of the nation’s immigration system in 41 years. Bush hailed the agreement as “one that will help enforce our borders, but equally importantly, it will treat people with respect.”
I don’t particularly oppose this bill, it is probably as good as we can expect given the current political climate, and I am definately for the amnesty as the only reasonable alternative in dealing with the illegal aliens we already have here.
The core problem though is that too many people continue to view immigration as a negative, rather then a positive thing (hence the desire to make too much of it ‘illegal’). Immigrants are a benefit to our nation, and something we should try and get more of, not less.
