The Hill – “A path to break the immigration impasse”
Our Fed government and We the People have shown an inability to solve the greater problem of functional-immigration in one piece.
Sure what the conservatives, the Trumpites, etc., want is important, sure what I and the liberal base want is important. Is what I want important to conservatives as a part of what conservatives want and visa-versa? That is how compromise happens. This larger problem can be tackled if done in pieces and if done in the right order!
Why do I say that?
Very much of what conservatives want, does the liberal-base want as well! Liberals want strong borders (meaning only legal entry). We want an immigration system that works here for We the People as well as for those who are entering. Liberals want to have a range of new immigrants enter this country whose skills compliment the range of jobs that are required and not filled by citizens. We want families to be together – meaning the close family. Those sound just like conservative values to me as well.
But, there are other equally important liberal objectives that seem reasonable, logical, humane, and – DESIRED! We want the Dreamers as defined, to have official and protected status. They, to have a path to citizenship and we will compromise to that set forth by the potus himself. We want those here LEGALLY, under TPS, who have been here too long to effectively return, to remain here but we agree, no need for citizenship for they; was never the intention. I am betting all these TPS immigrants will be just fine with continued official status; just not citizenship directly or because of.
But there are other issues like what about all those millions who are here now for many years, decades even – and not a part of this proposal? How do we make it unpalatable for those not here to NOT want to come here without official status? What will it take (really) to curb drugs into the United States. These are important issues but when We or the Fed tries to go to the whole at once – WE END UP BACK AT GROUND ZERO, nothing done and no progress!
However, some of the many of issues of immigration can be resolved – now!
This is why the compromise above, by the “Problem Solvers Caucus” in Congress, sounds like a good start to resolve of the whole. How do we get Congress to finish the job? By requiring them to do more, compromising progress – or face not getting re-elected. It’s the old how bad do you want to be in Congress syndrome both for the elected of the conservative and for the liberal base, for We the People.