Reality Check: High Fervor and Energy, but Slim Chance of Passing DA - Page 3

Yes, since the 1960s they have deliberately tried to win votes in the South among whites by stoking latent racism. Bush may have pushed DREAM, but where is Republican support now? I know Republicans claim to support Agjobs, but it will go nowhere like the DREAM Act as soon as the racist phalanx within the Republican party start shouting about amnesty. The biggest opponent now of DREAM is Jeff Sessions, a KKK sympathizer and the living incarnation of the devil. ALIPAC is bragging that if they win on DREAM now, immigration reform will be dead for five or ten years.

Passing an amnesty in 1986, or having pushed for immigration reform in 2006/2007 means nothing right now, because Republicans deliberately stoke fear of Mexicans to win votes, as I mentioned in my original post. Come down to Georgia during the next election if you want to see that process play out. The campaign to win over the lowest common denominator, and they are successful.

Even Bush is guilty in this case: he deliberately sabotaged McCain's primary campaign in 2000 in the South, by making it sound as though McCain had produced an illegitimate child with a Black woman. I would call that pandering to racism in the South after the 1960s, but that is just me.

Why won't you learn that this isn't your daddy's GOP? The GOP is slowly moving further to the right every election, the Teabaggers have them by their balls.

Man if The dems had balls DA would've passed when they had 60.

The GOP and DEMS both suck.

And that my friends is the unbiased truth.

+1 on that.

That's a little exaggerated, don't you think? Reagan's amnesty did not grant anybody immediate citizenship--far from it, anybody who got papers under that measure gained residency.

I don't doubt that the Democrats have a lackluster record on immigration reform; I and many others here have complained of their lack of action repeatedly. I also think that Obama's record-setting deportation numbers are troubling. But much of the bad--like the mass deportations--stem from Democrats' stupid attempts to conciliate the Republicans and meet them half way on fairy-tale criticisms like "securing the border" and other harsh measures that the Republican base likes immensely.

But if you are really concerned about advocacy to get the DREAM Act passed--and I am sure you are, and that you are not a troll, right?--then you would have to conclude that Republicans are not friends of the people on this portal. I would be the first to welcome any Republican support to pass DREAM or any other version of immigration reform, short of an enforcement-only approach. But if Republicans are really our friends, then where have they been since 2007? And explain to me how McCain--of all people!--is our friend when he himself exploited the xenophobia of this country right now to win reelection (going so far as to support Jan Brewer, who might as well just run for Grand Wizard during the next election and dispense with all the pretenses).

Like I said in my original post, what happened before 2007 doesn't matter to the politics of getting immigration reform passed now. And despite their many flaws, the Democrats are clearly lesser of two evils on immigration reform.