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Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC running lead on comprehensive immigration reform along with his liberal friend Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, is calling for among other things a national ID card to stem the flow of illegal immigration with comprehensive immigration reform the final goal. They are not alone. On the O’Reilly Factor Tuesday evening, host Bill O’Reilly said he favored a National ID Card citing among other things the additional taxes that would be collected through reduced fraud and called it a “moneymaker for the US”. He said he wanted it “fast -tracked and done this year. On Illegal Immigration though he did not believe the Obama Administration had the political cajones (my words not his) to actually put forth a bill in the current environment, especially with Healthcare on the bubble.
Guest Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN disagreed and said he was putting the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill on his calendar for six weeks out. A scary thought. Dobbs, a media firebrand credited with bringing Illegal Immigration to the forefront of the political debate “reluctantly agreed” with O’Reilly on the National ID Card. “For the same reasons I supported REAL ID, I support this.” He said. Privacy concerns are no doubt taking a back seat here.
O’Reilly has been Mr. Compromise throughout the debate on illegal immigration. In 2007 he said at one point that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, otherwise known as The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act (talk about spin), was the best we were going to get. While I sincerely respect O’Reilly I would be reluctant to have him represent my interests in a negotiation. Amnesty for 12-20 million illegal immigrants wasn’t even close t o the best we could hope to obtain.
The real surprise was Dobbs. Considered by most to be an illegal immigration hardliner he used the “C” word (compromise) more than once saying it is time to get something done and in other words the fringe players on the right and left need to come to the table and play nice.
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Found this article over at Examiner.com. Its got some information as well as opinion and a brief analysis. Still an interesting read. What is in quotations is simply an excerpt.
It seems there is much more support for an immigration reform. So far, I like what Senator Schumer has been crafting along with Senator Graham. Having a biometric ID card is a great way to prevent further illegal immigration and hopefully it can be used to gain support from Republicans and moderate Democrats.
Hopefully this all plays out well.
http://www.examiner.com/x-17495-San-...gration-Reform