Three Thoughts on an Amnesty
by Ross Douthat
NOVEMBER 21, 2014 11:11 AM
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/three-thoughts-on-an-amnesty/?comments&_r=0
Lets take a short time-out from the hysteria:
Who benefits from the pre-Obama initiative status quo on illegal aliens? Certainly not the illegals who are here, forced into the shadows and legal limbo, rife to be treated like the slaves of past ages.
All the "free market" enthusiasts, the "job creators", intent on pushing wages down to slave labor levels in order to increase their profits, or, less polemically, all the employers who would have to deal with major structural changes (agriculture, hotel/restaurant, low level services) in order to survive the disappearence of the illegal alien slave labor pool.
All the nonesense about "constitutional crisis" and "amnesty" not withstanding, the GOP is still acting as the lacky of these industries in avoiding dealing with the immigration issue as a normal problem solving legislative issue. Many legislators, including, most likely, Democrats, are accepting large sums of money for the specific purpose of blocking any rational legislative action to address this problem for the benefit of the powerful industries which depend on slave labor.
Certainly the Obaba initiative leaves many questions unanswered, but the current, and expected conservative outrage is transparently nonsesensical. As Obama said, if you don't like it, pass legislation. Some of your own prominent people (Bush II, Newt, to name just two) have made some very reasonable and rational proposals, but where whistled back by the crazies in your ranks. That is the real Constitutional crisis!
All the "free market" enthusiasts, the "job creators", intent on pushing wages down to slave labor levels in order to increase their profits, or, less polemically, all the employers who would have to deal with major structural changes (agriculture, hotel/restaurant, low level services) in order to survive the disappearence of the illegal alien slave labor pool.
All the nonesense about "constitutional crisis" and "amnesty" not withstanding, the GOP is still acting as the lacky of these industries in avoiding dealing with the immigration issue as a normal problem solving legislative issue. Many legislators, including, most likely, Democrats, are accepting large sums of money for the specific purpose of blocking any rational legislative action to address this problem for the benefit of the powerful industries which depend on slave labor.
Certainly the Obaba initiative leaves many questions unanswered, but the current, and expected conservative outrage is transparently nonsesensical. As Obama said, if you don't like it, pass legislation. Some of your own prominent people (Bush II, Newt, to name just two) have made some very reasonable and rational proposals, but where whistled back by the crazies in your ranks. That is the real Constitutional crisis!
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