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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (78391)	6/19/2018 9:40:03 PM
From: Dracin72	1 Recommendation Recommended By Katelew Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364333

But in some ways he is exposing both parties to be the Hippocrates they are on this issue. The Democrats and Republicans could swiftly pass legislation to stop this even without changing any other component of the immigration law with a Veto proof majority. But they won't because both parties, while publicly admonishing Trump are using the children as a weapon to try to advance their own agendas.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (78391)	6/20/2018 7:38:44 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 364333

I'll give him his damn wall in exchange for making the employers part of the fix. Most of the proposed solutions in the multi-faceted immigration issue is that they address symptoms rather than the problem. If you don't address the problem you can never fix it. The biggest failing has been that the economic migration problem solution, a real solution, of requiring papers for wages was never implemented. Yet that isn't even part of the discussion.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (78391)	6/20/2018 9:38:53 AM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 364333

You can google all the things Trump has asked for in a comprehensive immigration bill. Requiring e-verification by employers is definitely part of it. Business leaders are the obstacle. The US Chamber of Commerce and PACs funded by the Koch Brothers are driving a lot of the resistance. This is not a left-right issue. It's not even that much of a crime issue. It's an economic issue. Trump, in fact, would be better off, imo, to frame it this way than as a crime issue. It's this simple: If the entry of low-skilled and poorly educated labor can be controlled such that numbers balance the need for this will help those workers at the bottom of the scale who are already here. I live in the South. My interest is in the advancement of African-Americans, and I've seen for myself the floods of Hispanics that have over-burdened our schools and crowded out young black workers.