Political Battle on Illegal Immigration Shifts to States

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/us/01immig.html?_r=1

Look at what America's becoming lol

I just wish insted of state level, they just do it on national level. If they do it national level we will see huge and massive protest agianst it and finally they'll do some work done on immigration.

hahah I can't wait till those blows up. It's going to be entertaining.

I'll bet you its going to be masive protest, expecting even bigger then civil rights movements. We alredy saw the trailer in 2007 when house passes Anti's bill and its time to see the real movie. Its gone be really intresting to see when President, Senators and Reps and finally american peoples will wake up and freeez everything uppp until they act on it.

It'll be love to see Session, Smith and king when these heats up.

I also hope to see things heat up it will be nice if the DA became very public and that a border security bill be passed and then hopefully the talks on passing the DA begin its just hope I really dont know what to expect with all these republicans in both chambers.

I used to belive DA had good chance of passing with standalone bill. After looking at last month votes i will say only way DA can passes, its with CIR or one of Anti's bill, but i dout it if they'll let Anti have evrything just for DA and then CIR will never pass b/c anti got everything they want. So i thing pro-immigration groups will not give what Anti wants for DA. So DA has good chances with CIR and strong Anti's enforcemnt bills or Anti's just willing to pass DA with only border security bills without any internal enforcement and CIR can use the internal enforcement bills to pass.

I kind of agree with you that the DA and CIR together will make much sense but my opinion is that theres no way in hell CIR is passing anytime soon and i dont mean just the 112 congress even next congress. I bet even democrats themselves dont want CIR as much as they may seem to. For both parties the DA makes much more sense because its young people that are going to take advantage of this while the CIR will cover immigrants of all ages and to me all senators are saying under their breaths we dont want old immigrants (no offense to older dreamers) we want the young ones that are going to college and getting degrees. I think obama has to give in an throw the border bill republicans originally asked for and not the half-assed bill he gave to secure the boreders and then tag the DA to it. Theres alot of signs saying that the economy will pick up on 2011 and also alot of republicans are becoming more aware of the damage their doing to their party by abusing us dreamers ...maybe they'll wake up and realize the consequences that could come during the next election I could only hope tho.

I plan on leaving in 2 years anyways, but my family lives in North Carolina. If South Carolina passes something like this I fear the Northern state will, too.

The fundamental problem is that our country is still very polarized. Maryland (the state I live in) proposes it's own DREAM Act which will eventually get passed in 2011, while other states are going in the completely opposite direction.

It's almost like you're living in a different country if you used to live in Maryland, then go to a state like South Carolina, where everything is completely different (except the time zone). That is why immigration is something that creates political gridlock, just like health care reform. You have some desperate people in power that will do what ever it takes to not get this passed, while you have people out there who have the opposite view.