A RW view of immigration reform - Mark Cromer: No, You Can’t!

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"...a lot of hard-to-imagine things have come to pass since November, from the feds throwing $1 trillion into the boiler rooms of the nation’s sinking financial ships to Washington’s bureaucratic brain trust effectively taking over two-thirds of America’s domestic auto industry. The nationalization of the health-care system is more likely to happen now than ever before."

"...now seems almost certain that this year will also see Obama endorse and aggressively push for the largest mass amnesty in the history of nations — fighting hard to legalize with the stroke of his pen as many as 30 million men, women and children who came to the United States illegally and put them on a path to citizenship."

"The network of ethnocentric Latino groups, led by the National Council of La Raza, is expected to pour more than $18 million into the campaign for mass amnesty, a spending spree that is almost certainly going to be supplemented by millions more dollars from business interests determined to keep hungry Americans off their job sites. (If amnesty seems counter-productive to businesses that gouge profits from cheap, illegal labor, then ask yourself why they have long supported it? The answer is that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its allies know amnesty will trigger an even greater wave of illegal immigration; one that will explode the underground labor market and drive wages even lower.)"

"So as Obama prepares to swing for the fences with another amnesty bill, and with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as his base coaches, the fate of any amnesty will come down to another congressional caucus — the Blue Dog Democrats. While amnesty proponents are again likely to find enough votes to get a bill through the Senate, a bulwark of House Republicans is likely to unify against it. If the majority of the 51 conservative Democrats in the Blue Dog caucus join them, the bill will die in the House ."

http://www.noozhawk.com/local_news/article/041109_mark_cromer_no_you_cant/

I counted twenty uses of "amnesty". (To be fair he did use "legalize" twice.) Multiply this by about a billion and you would have the number of times the RW will use the term in any upcoming debate on immigration reform.

Not sure where he get the 30 million figure from. (I suppose that the bigger number you use, the scarier the problem seems.) I most often see 10-12 million as the number of illegal immigrants.

The author notes (in a derisive sort of way) the fact that the Chamber of Commerce supports immigration reform (though not the proposal put forward by the AFL-CIO and Change to Win this week), as do many critics here on DU.

He seems confident that the repubs in the House will oppose reform, liberal Democrats will support it, and that the battle will be to see which side can win over the Blue Dogs.