How to break stalemate over illegal immigration – Which is it: rigid adherence to immigration law or compassion for the people who are already here?
Tagged: children, citizenship, Dream ActPosted on: October 31st, 2007
If you didn’t think so before, the DREAM Act’s demise in the Senate last week showed for sure, beyond the proverbial shadow of a doubt, that Congress can’t do immigration reform.
Whether it’s the big-deal comprehensive immigration change the Senate choked on earlier this year, or the smaller-deal DREAM Act’s attempt to help children of illegal immigrants earn citizenship, Congress is stuck. And will remain stuck until Washington – and the rest of us – decide what’s more important: a rigid adherence to the law or a compassionate view of the alien amidst us?Not until a clearer consensus emerges will Congress find its way.”*
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