Wednesday, December 8, 2010

When does the bad news end?

The atmosphere in Congress is violently anti-immigrant because of fear of the tea partiers. The Dream Act is soon to die, and so will immigration reform. I am not pleased.

From Politico.com:

“The next two years will be a very, very bleak period for immigration reform and for immigrants,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, which has been urging passage of the DREAM Act.

In January, Sharry added, Reps. Lamar Smith of Texas and Steve King of Iowa, the Republicans driving immigration policy in the House, “literally want to expel 11 million undocumented immigrants in our country, to make life so miserable they can’t get work, get an apartment, go to school or survive here, so they pick up and go home.”

When the Senate roll-call vote comes up Wednesday, there may be few, if any, GOP supporters, and even some politically vulnerable Democrats may vote against the bill, fearing a 2012 backlash.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46052.html#ixzz17XYWz8zo


1 comment:

  1. Blame it on the Republicans. They are the ones killing immigration reform. This one thing may cause them loss of the White House in 2012. When will Republicans ever really become people people? And to think that all of them would not be here if it was not for an ancestor immigrating here from somewhere else. Problem for Republicans is they do not want others to share their America dream. SHAME ON THE REPUBLICANS.

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