I dont want to sound nitpicky, but undocumented immigration is generally a hotter issue for Republicans than most other groups and Republican voters tend to be more interested in it than other groups. It's not EXCLUSIVELY a Republican issue, but they tend to make it a bigger deal than others.
It's more of a CONSERVATIVE issue, I'll give you that. The Republicans as a group haven't had a strong record on immigration. And also, I'm sure there are plenty of Blue Dog Democrats that would line up with a more or less conservative take on the issue. Most union workers I know, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat, are not big fans of illegal immigrants.
Talking to people who take decidedly "let's militarize the border even though it's illegal" stance leads me to suspect otherwise. Undocumented workers are a scapegoat, they are now and they always have been.
That's a radical position, well outside the mainstream. That would be like saying all left wingers want completely open and unmonitored borders. Yes, that is a left wing stance, but its hardly the mainstream liberal view.
Actually the number of immigrants has dropped off, due to the slump in our economy.
Just because there are less of them coming in now, doesn't mean we can afford to take them in.
Really? If millions of people have crossed our border without being caught yet we've had one incident of terrorism committed on our soil by foreign nationals in the last nine years with only a handful of stopped plots...that's a pretty good track record. How is that unsettling?
It's a good track record, but hardly means its impossible or even improbable. I'm amazed Al Queda hasn't used our porous borders to bring in swarms of terrorist cells. If I was them and had the mindset that terrorism was an acceptable practice, I kow I would take advantage of it.
To me, what is MORE unsettling, is we have tens of thousands of people in our country who own weapons and have stated publically that there needs to be some sort of violent action against our government and against citizens who agree with the government at all.
I'm really not all that frightened by a few yokels and whackjobs out in the woods somewhere playing army with other whackjobs. They should be monitored and observed as any potential domestic threat would be. But pretending they are any sort of credible threat to our nation is laughable.
This is just a side point but something that always chaps my ass none the less. Yes he's been in office two years, but consider what he's dealing with on a daily basis. No, not every problem has been solved but the guy's gotta sleep at some point.
Obama and Democrats have been utterly silent on this issue until the Arizona law forced their hand to say something. It would be one thing if Obama was already taking an active role in trying to figure out a solution, but until Arizona got the ball rolling, the Obama administration didn't even have illegal immigration on its radar.
And again, I'm not saying the Republicans are any better. That so called reform that McCain and Bush tried to peddle was pathetic. Both parties suck when it comes to this issue and have sucked for quite some time.
