Immigration Reform Policy Issues

The Washington Post reports that the President doesn’t seem serious about its own immigration reform legislation.

"The administration hasn't given any detail. They're not interested in passing it. They're just interested in talking about it," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that seeks to limit immigration. "In the software business, they call this vaporware. They don't want to offend this side or the other side, so they punt."

In the same article Michael Chertoff is quoted as saying that deporting eleven million immigrants would cost “billions and billions and billions of dollars” and was not feasible.

The system is broken, but the GOP can’t or won’t fix it. Polls in the West show support for a solution that is both humane and realistic.

In Utah, a very red state, 57% of those polled by the Deseret News would favor a program that would allow undocumented workers now living in America to remain in the country and earn citizenship without penalty.

Likewise, in Arizona, right on the front line so to speak, most Arizona voters do not want to force undocumented immigrants to leave the United States if they are established in communities and have no criminal record according to a poll by the Arizona Republic.

Leo Brown | October 24, 2005 | Comment on This Post (0 so far) Permalink: Immigration Reform Policy Issues

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