Re:The $100k green card
by yummyfajitas on Sunday December 11, 2011 @09:59AM
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...there is an incredibly shrill minority that shouts down anything that's immigration-related when it looks like that change could benefit "them durn illegalz" who are already here.
It's always convenient to blame things on your political opponents, but lets be realistic here. Bush's amnesty bill was shot down by a bipartisan group.
Some of them did actually oppose amnesty. But quite a few of them on the opposite side of the aisle had strong opposition to replacing family based immigration with skill based immigration.
In reality, the fight about immigration is about importing people to vote for their political party. The politicians don't care about much else.
It's always convenient to blame things on your political opponents, but lets be realistic here. Bush's amnesty bill was shot down by a bipartisan group.
Some of them did actually oppose amnesty. But quite a few of them on the opposite side of the aisle had strong opposition to replacing family based immigration with skill based immigration.
In reality, the fight about immigration is about importing people to vote for their political party. The politicians don't care about much else.