Actions speak louder than words and I won’t be satisfied until compressive, fair, and well-meaning immigration reforms are passed. However, we may be headed in that direction very soon if the testimony of Department of Homeland Security nominee Janet Napolitano is to be believed:Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for homeland security secretary, told a congressional panel this morning that fixing the “broken” U.S. immigration system would be a priority.Mind you, Napolitano’s testimony won’t please nativists who will whine about “shamnesty” or some pro-immigrant factions who will complain about too much enforcement. But compromise is needed to reform a busted immigration system and reverse backwards immigration policies.
Napolitano, 51, is a critic of U.S. immigration policy. As governor of Arizona, a border state, she called for the National Guard to help secure the Mexican border and billed the federal government for state services used by illegal immigrants. She would be integral in pushing legislation Obama supports to boost enforcement as well as opportunities for foreign workers.
“I have walked, flown over, and ridden horseback along our southwest border,” Napolitano told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “I appreciate its vastness, as well as the grave consequences of our broken system.”
On a related note, a report released yesterday concluded that the weakening U.S. economy has not caused a return of illegal immigrants to their countries of origin. The study conducted by the Migration Policy Institute noted that illegal immigrants tend to jump from state to state seeking better economic conditions rather than leave the U.S.
Image- AP (“In this Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary-designate Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, left, speaks as Vice President-elect Joe Biden, center, is briefed by Jim Talent, co-chair Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, right, at the presidential transition headquarters in Washington.”)
Online Sources- Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Times
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Prophecy : Obama won't kick out 12 million Latinos ( Illegal Immigrants )
Reasons : Economic, Politic, Historical, Moral
The Economic Reason :
The American Economy is a snake, it ate a rabbit called "Baby Boom", that Rabbit fed the Economy Snake for many years, the parents of Baby Boomers killed themselves working to provide homes, cars, bicycles, roller skates, vacations and education for their boomer Children, during the 1950s and 1960s.
These baby boomers ( most of them White ) started to work in the 1960s and 1970s and they worked until now. It is time for retirement and if they continue working, then their brain cells are ageing, and are not so creative, energetic, inventive or modern as in previous decades.
The Economic Recession ( that may be longer than expected ) will force the Baby Boomers to stay working.
But when they retire there is a problem. The birth rate of White People is very low and not enough for replacement of the Retiring White Workers. Enter Minorities and the problem is solved.
But If you kick out the Minorities, or dislodge, expulse or evict them, Then who is going to work in the Future to provide for The Big Deficits of America in the Trillions of Dollars ????. And the Health Care Deficits and Wrong Budgets that are going to be defeated by millions of Old People ???
Who is going to pay for those big deficits and who is going to sustain the Very Old Population of Mostly Whites ???
You pay working and earning money to pay taxes. You have to be young.
I have many more Reasons of a Political, Historical and Moral Nature for these assessments and appraisals. Here :
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"Prophecy : Obama won't kick out 12 million Latinos ( Illegal Immigrants )"
Agreed, but t odds are he won't grant a general amnesty to undocumented immigrants either.
To Erwin C. ;
Thanks Erwin for your comment.
I agree that a "general amnesty to undocumented immigrants" as you said won't occur.
I understand the need to police the borders and stop the Entrance of Illegals.
I understand the need to evict lots of undesirable people, delinquency and others, carefully considered.
Not only I do understand but I approve.
What is absurd and dangerous for everybody ( The U.S., Mexico, Latin America, etc .. ) is the ideas in many right wing blogs of expulsing 12 million people in a short period of time, or even in four years.
The U. S. has many intelligent people and they showed up in the last November 4. .... But it worries me a lot that the Haters take command.
Fortunately, Mr Obama and Ms Clinton are also rational and cerebral.
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