Post Mid-Term Reform

With many new seats won by the Republicans in the senate, they will gain house majority, and have an impact on the immigration reform bill I talked about in the post below this one. Several republic can senators like Mike Kirk for example ran with the bases of their campaign being against the recently proposed reform bill. Hence the pathway to citizenship for some 12 million undocumented immigrants in the US is likely to be of little concern. Though you can be sure beefing up the border security is at the top of the list. Kirk recently voted yes in favor of the minute men project we discussed in class recently.

I think that the news in the near future over immigration will be deeply concerned with deportations from now on. I think President Obama may have to go back on his promise... "We are not going to ship back 12 million people, we're not going to do it as a practical matter. We would have to take all our law enforcement that we have available and we would have to use it and put people on buses, and rip families apart, and that's not who we are, that's not what America is about." Only time will tell i suppose. Arizona's bill 1070 is likely to stay in the news for some time as well because of Jan Brewers win for governor. It's likely that she will continue to set the tone for other states reform policies. Obama said that it would take too many recourses, too much manpower, and rip families apart to deport that many people. He said that it wasn't practical, and I personally couldn't agree more. Then he went on to say..."that's not what America is about". That last statement reminded me of a Cold War era promotion of the moral democratic image. I couldn't help but think... well that's clearly what American voters are about! However I did hear some good news for Latinos. Yesterday at the polls history was made by "more than doubling the number of Republican Hispanics in Congress and giving our nation 3 Republican Hispanic Governors for the first time." This is a significant increase of presence in leadership positions that i believe is a vital part of the process in Latino assimilation.

http://www.usaimmigrationreform.org/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/latino-vote-decisive-in-key-battle-ground-states-106635658.html