Waiting for the Senate...and other news
Today the Senate is supposed to come up with an immigration bill (see the lates here).
Will it be any good? Probably not. Jacob Weisberg dissects the options and concludes that none of them are any good.
I agree with that. In fact, he comes close to the main problem by simply mentioning Mexico!! Yes, thousands of articles have been written lately on immigration and all but a handful don't even mention the country where 70%+ of illegal immigrants come from. You know, the one with a population of 105 million and a 3,000 mile borker with the U.S. But Weisberg doesn't go beyond that.
That, my friends, is why any unilateral measure approved by Congress will end up being bad policy. If Mexico and Central America are not brought on board any immigration reform initiative, it will cause a foreign policy catastrophe, it will not be effective and it will not deal with the supply-side isues.
Will it be any good? Probably not. Jacob Weisberg dissects the options and concludes that none of them are any good.
I agree with that. In fact, he comes close to the main problem by simply mentioning Mexico!! Yes, thousands of articles have been written lately on immigration and all but a handful don't even mention the country where 70%+ of illegal immigrants come from. You know, the one with a population of 105 million and a 3,000 mile borker with the U.S. But Weisberg doesn't go beyond that.
That, my friends, is why any unilateral measure approved by Congress will end up being bad policy. If Mexico and Central America are not brought on board any immigration reform initiative, it will cause a foreign policy catastrophe, it will not be effective and it will not deal with the supply-side isues.
posted by Andrés at 11:57 AM
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