I don’t like Rubio’s immigration plan
The most significant policy fiction is premised on the idea of reform. The plan does nothing to address the black market for unskilled, low cost migrant work. It does nothing to deal with the long delays in the present immigration system. It does nothing to actually solve our immigration problems, but hides behind the construct of “comprehensive” reform. Along the way, it potentially adds more people to already overwhelmed entitlement programs, but then that too is another kicked can.
The desire to “just do something” overwhelms Washington too much. This immigration plan gives orgasmic relief to that desire, but in all the hype and show does nothing to address the real needs of employers and the hopes and dreams of those still longing to come to United States whose wait will now most likely be extended and grow even more complex.
Immigration is an issue that keeps hispanic voters from trusting the GOP. Many call it a “gateway” issue. I get that. But pandering in the name of a solution does not actually fix the problem.
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…but after a couple paychecks at FOX NEWS, you’ll come around, eh Erickson?
Jeddite on January 30, 2013 at 9:42 AM
I fear a Trojan Horse.
BuckeyeSam on January 30, 2013 at 9:44 AM
I thought this was a standard snarky headline from Allahpundit, but it’s actually Erickson’s headline.
Mark1971 on January 30, 2013 at 9:44 AM
I believe ya, Eric. But, then again…I’m on my 3rd marriage.
kingsjester on January 30, 2013 at 9:45 AM
Is he saying that it needs to be easier for them to gain citizenship, or that the real needs of employers require those unskilled, low wage jobs?
changer1701 on January 30, 2013 at 9:48 AM
FIFY
gatorboy on January 30, 2013 at 9:49 AM
You gotta love how Eric Erickson waits until everyone has chimed in on this issue to take pieces of what Tucker Carlson said or Krauthammer said or Levin and Rush said and then fashion himself an opinion.
AYNBLAND on January 30, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Orgasmic? The republicans War on the Wimmenz continues.
tommy71 on January 30, 2013 at 9:54 AM
I can’t see all these illegals registering to pay fines and back taxes. Its like asking gun owners to register their guns. Ain’t gonna happen.
ctmom on January 30, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Nobody cares.
Good Lt on January 30, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Erickson is missing the boat on this, as I believe the entire dextrosphere is.
We already have a raft of laws on the books concerning how to deal with immigration and citizenship issues. ENFORCE THEM. Anybody who essentially says “we can’t enforce the laws we have so we need more laws” pegs my bullshit detector something fierce.
gryphon202 on January 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM
If
a treeErick-Woods Ericksonfalls in a forestwrites an article at redstate.com…steebo77 on January 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Rubio’s amnesty plan is only popular with illegals, democrats and Republican progressives – no one with a brain likes it, or thinks the “enforcement” aspect would ever be implemented as written (and no one with a brain trusts Rubio).
Rubio is an obama-style opportunist – with his eyes on the White House.
Pork-Chop on January 30, 2013 at 10:33 AM
The ones that can, will. The ones that can’t came a day before the cutoff date and lived off the savings they brought with them. Fines will be waived.
You don’t have to pass the bill to know what’s in it. Heck, you don’t even have to read it to know what’s in it.
Dusty on January 30, 2013 at 10:34 AM
No it isn’t. And even if it were, we already know that passing amnesty will do nothing to change that. And frankly, arguments like this make me cringe, because it seems to imply that Hispanics believe they are above the law, or are deserving of special treatment. If wrong, it’s kind of racist to think this way. If right….well, the last thing we need to do is make 30 million more of them legal.
In Chuck Schumer’s own words, enforcing the law is harassment. And then in the next breath, he tells you their new, tougher laws against future illegals will be enforced. So to be clear…enforcement today is harassment, but enforcement 5 years from now when 5 million more illegals are here is not harassment.
xblade on January 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM
Well it will be implemented to the same exacting degree that the laws on SS disability, Medicaid, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Foodstamps, Housing Assistance, Obamaphones, or any of a hundred other policies which have rules to be enforced. They implemented previous rules of immigration enforcement just as strongly.
The problem is that in spite of enforcement millions of illegal immigrants have ensconced themselves in the country over the last 25 years. Like the argument we are now having with gun control, more enforcement mechanisms just burden law-abiding people with a lot more regulations, like a creating a national employment registry, and putting the onus on all law-abiding employers and creating nothing but a larger bureaucracy sucking up taxpayer dollars. It will do little to nothing in stopping illegal immigration; even putting aside the machinations of those in power to emasculate enforcement, ever watchfulness will evolve to complacency, which will lead to turning a blind eye, which will plant resistance that waters the Do Something! tree.
For want of upholding the rule of law, the country was lost.
Dusty on January 30, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Still waiting for that Will Folks story you said you had Erik.
portlandon on January 30, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Permanent Democratic majorities.
What’s not to love?
profitsbeard on January 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Gee…he sure loved the guy before.
I guess he is not as conseeervative as we were promised.
NeoKong on January 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Yeah, forget about the borders, unlike every other nation on earth
They have to do this now, to get special visas
And it shouldn’t. Agriculture is the only migrant work, and that is only about a million jobs. Give a visa for Agriculture only, and register the itinerary.
The hopes and dreams of Americans are the purpose of government. Whom does the government serve?
Notice he call’s it Rubio’s plan. The target of this article has to be Rubio, since these two seem to share the same goals
I dislike Rubio’s plan.This guy argues for it while arguing against Rubio
Who’s he carrying water for?
entagor on January 30, 2013 at 12:10 PM
I don’t either, as I’m sure there are plenty of illegals that will not have the means to pay. But I wouldn’t doubt for a minute that the monetary cost, at some point down the road, will somehow be forgiven.
lynncgb on January 30, 2013 at 12:17 PM
I don’t like Rubio.
bgibbs1000 on January 30, 2013 at 1:00 PM