The issue of immigration is one
that has met an extraordinary number of forces on its journey to solution, and
it’s not done yet. It does, however, seem to be coming to a checkpoint on the
road. One of the greatest roadblocks to progress so far has been the lack of a
consensus on what the problem is. Is it more important to stop people getting
in? Or to remove those already here? Or to monitor business’ hiring practices?
Different states have radically different positions on not only what the
largest problem is, but which of these should in fact be illegal.
The dialogue over these issues seems to have finally borne
some fruit, in the form of a bill which is to be announced today, around 3. The
bill attempts to provide space for increased border security and business
oversight, rather like other proposed and failed bills, with two important
additions: it provides a significant path to documentation for those workers
already in the country, and it has significant GOP support.
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The
support from the GOP has seemed to come from their desire to gain leverage with
the growing Latino population, who were key parts of the GOP losses in the last
election. And while they are certainly making, from the perspective of their
past calls for action, a compromise, they are also responding to the rhetoric
of people such as Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), who stated that the current system
gives “De Facto amnesty”, since the government is in the vast majority of cases
not able to respond at all. The public reaction to the bill will soon be known,
but according to the details of the bill from the aides who spoke to Bloomberg
news, it is believed to represent the desires of both border states and agricultural
states far better than previous bills.
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