Jeb to push for immigration reform
Jeb Bush will be back in DC this week to present a Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored report on immigration policy that calls for a path to legalization for illegal immigrants — a position shared by his brother, former president George W. Bush.
Jeb, George and the CFR. Those are the three best reasons not to do it.
The task force — co-chaired by Bush and Mack McLarty, former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff — argues that “the failure to reform immigration laws and procedures threatens to harm America’s economy, jeopardize its diplomacy, and weaken its national security.”
The report urges Congress and the Obama administration to undertake a new effort with three central components: “the creation of a more efficient legal immigration system that responds to labor market needs and enhances U.S. competitiveness; a strong enforcement regime that secures U.S. borders and ends the hiring of unauthorized workers; and a program of earned legalization that will offer an opportunity for many illegal immigrants to earn the right to remain in the United States.”
Translated into English, the “three central components” mean: (1) cheap labor for big corporations, (2) what need will there be for a border patrol if you’re just gonna let everyone in? It’s like legalizing drugs then boosting funding for the DEA. (3) Since there will be amnesty, there will be no “unauthorized workers,” and therefore no employer will be hiring “unauthorized workers,” since they’ll all have amnesty; same point as I made in (2).
As far as the part after the last semicolon, a question I have had in my mind, one that I have never had answered with any credibility, is this: Why are we to think that we somehow have an obligation to give a “path to citizenship” to people who sneak into the country? If I sneak into Mexico, nobody with any real authority is going to think that I deserve a “path to citizenship,” I would get my ass jailed and then deported. And by “deported,” I mean actually returned to the United States, not the flimsy American definition.
