Friday Immigration Review: Kos Predicts Reform This Year
Published June 26, 2009 @ 03:56PM PT
If you're wondering what is going on with immigration reform a day after Obama met with congressional leaders to discuss proposed legislation, read Kyle's overview at Citizen Orange. This is important:
the world cannot wait another year or two for U.S. migration reform. People are dying, lives are being ruined, and families are being torn apart, now.
Kos took note of the meeting, predicting that the political winds favor reform.
Ente Breed laments the U.S.'s discriminatory immigration laws on same-sex couples at Immigration Equality:
These couples have made the painful decision, dictated by U.S. immigration law, to leave the life, family and friends of their American halves behind. Their relationship, even before marriage, is recognized all over Europe, in Australia, Canada, Israel and South America. But the United States of America refuse to grant equal rights to the foreign partners of thousands of its citizens and, therefore, forces these Americans to pack their bags.
As DHS signals plans to limit the scope of state and local immigration enforcement under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Utah moves in the other direction. More reason to pass immigration reform!
Marisa Treviño reports that Chuck Kuck's mantra (Litigate!) has paid off again, with the State Department backing down on its policy of denying U.S. passports to Mexican-Americans birthed by midwives.
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The mindset that unauthorized migration is the result of insufficient border security will almost ensure that the issue of undocumented immigration will surface again in significant numbers in 5, 10, or 15 years. The underlying problems are the chronic mismatch between visa numbers and employer demand, global inequality, and an increasingly punitive legal system that treats workers like criminals. Without addressing those issues head on, any new bill will fail to change the status quo just as Reagan's 1986 bill and Clinton's 1996 bill failed.
Excellent points. And I also like what Kyle has to say...
"...the most pervasive problem, I believe, is the across the board pandering to punitive anti-migrant rhetoric on behalf of both politicians and migrant advocates."
Yes, we want humane, sensible reform....not more raids, profit-making prisons, militarization, and exploitation of undocumented workers. And we want action soon, not more empty rhetoric. Kudos to you and Kyle for your stellar work and thoughtful blogs.
Posted by a d on 06/27/2009 @ 03:11PM PT
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