The
Washington Post reported this week how Democrats are trying to plot a strategy
by which they will present an image to sway people over to backing the desire
of President Barack Obama to revamp immigration policies in ways to prevent
families from being split by deportation.
IT’S
GOING TO be a bi-lingual approach. There will be many appeals to people to whom
Spanish is a significant language in their lives.
It
likely will be along those lines that Gutierrez, who long has urged the need
for serious reform and was upset at how long it took Obama to act, and other
members of Congress will be explaining just how detrimental it really is to our
society to let the conservative ideologues have their desires of a policy that
stresses deportation over all other changes.
The
point being that conservatives who are counting on a new Republican majority
over all of Congress to tout their nativist desires are going to be throwing
out their own share of rhetoric about the evils of Obama using his executive
order powers to implement some changes without Congressional approval.
Admittedly,
it would be better if Congress would act on a comprehensive plan to fix the
flaws in immigration laws that turn it into a bureaucratic nightmare for those
who have to endure it.
BUT
THE REPEATED failure of Republicans in Congress in recent years to even
consider the issue gave Obama the moral high ground to take some action – one that
various polls show a majority of people can support.
The
ideologues, however, will want to believe their minority viewpoint is the one
that represents the thoughts of all people. If Obama isn’t careful, too many
people will come to view their twisted line of logic as fact – just as there
are those who ought to know better when it comes to health care reform.
That
was an issue where backers of making health insurance more readily available
were not aggressive enough, and wound up letting the opposition dominate the
debate with their trash talk.
Gutierrez
& Company are meant to prevent the same from happening with immigration
reform. There also will be the case that Spanish debate will wind up being
dominated by the Obama backers – unless Republicans can start finding Latinos
capable of badmouthing immigration reform with a straight face.
THAT’S
SOMETHING NOT likely to happen!
The
trash talk has already started. On Thursday, the GOP-run House of
Representatives gave its support to a measure expressing its opposition to
Obama on immigration reform. It is a measure that the (for another month)
Democrat-led Senate will ignore.
At
least it isn’t any of the nonsense talk about defunding the federal government
to cause a shutdown of services to the public.
Although
the Washington Post reported how there is talk of acting early in 2015 to cut
off funding to the Department of Homeland Security for programs that relate to
immigration law.
IT
SEEMS THE ideologues are hoping they can get people all worked up against Obama
so that if there is a future government shutdown, people might be inclined to
blame Obama for it.
Even
though history shows that whenever Republicans try to shut down government
services for ideological reasons, the public sees through the tactic and winds
up blaming the Party of Reagan (who himself is probably rolling over in his
California grave at the short-mindedness of his alleged ideological
colleagues).
How
else to explain the nonsense lawsuit that got filed earlier this week in the U.S.
District Court in Brownsville, Texas that seeks to have a federal judge strike
down Obama’s executive order? Sixteen other states, including the knuckleheaded
Hoosiers and Cheeseheads to the east and north of Illinois, joined in that
lawsuit.
I
just can’t see any federal judge attuned to the realities of life in south
Texas – where it is the Mexican-Americans who are the majority of people and
where it is blatantly obvious that the U.S./Mexico border used to be significantly
to the north of the Rio Grande – having the nerve to go along with such
xenophobic tripe.
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