Immigration Debate Heating Up
Charlotte’s own Sue Myrick and Patrick McHenry are at the forefront of a group of House Republicans who want to make clear that they reject the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill, which is now sitting in the Judiciary Committee.
The politics of the matter do not augur well for a real solution. Senate Majority Leader Frist has said he wants a quick vote, and threatened to bypass the Committee entirely if it didn’t speed up its debate. Frist is looking to 2008, and since he believes a guest worker program is unpopular with conservatives, he is opposing it (whether it is really unpopular with all conservative voters is, I think, debatable). On the House side, with more than 70 Republicans signing the letter, there will be a major showdown if the Senate manages to pass a bill that includes guest workers.
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Comprehensive reform (which in my opinion includes guest workers and expanded worker rights) requires enforcement, or there is no point in legislating at all. IRCA failed in large part because there was never any serious effort to enforce the law.
The problem is that any real solution requires making everyone a little bit angry.
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