Immigration Frenzy
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I’m late on this, but I guess the big national story is the dreaded immigration bill living to fight yet another day. Here in Virginia, where the conservative blogosphere has been pleading on a daily basis for people to call their senators and oppose the bill, the initial response seems to be stunned disbelief. (Both Virginia senators voted for cloture the other day.)
I caught a little bit of Glenn Beck yesterday; he seems to think there is a worldwide conspiracy by the power elite to “usurp” (his exact word) national governments and replace them with a global government, and this immigration bill is part of the plan. Or something like that. It’s the first time I’ve heard that theory, and I admit I didn’t follow his reasoning very well.
I still don’t understand all the vehemence of the opposition to this bill. I don’t think it’s a particularly great or effective bill but I don’t see how it’s any worse than any other bill Congress passes. I listen to conservative arguments (mainly “no amnesty” and “enforce the laws we already have” and “build a fence first”), but they all seem to boil down to literally arresting and deporting 12 million illegal immigrants, a task which I can’t imagine any conservative thinks is realistically achievable without some major, major blowback, if it can be done at all.
Anyway, there is another cloture vote on the bill probably happening even as I post this. (I don’t know why there is another cloture vote when they already had one, but the mechanics of crafting legislation often makes little sense to me.)
UPDATE: Immigration reform is dead in the Senate (again).
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