What changes do you think democrats will make on immigration, if any?

Question

What do you think the dems are going to do on immigration/illegal immigration?

Answer 1

It's hard to tell. What they want and what they get are two different things and what they can get away with is another.

American citizens have to keep a close eye on them and Demand Deportation of illegal aliens.

I think they are a little frightened of the public right now and will delay the immigration issue or try to sneak it behind Americans backs. Which will be a little hard to do since so many grassroots organizations and watch dog groups have popped up.

Answer 2

I believe that in the next session they will try to pass the Senate immigration bill which is essentially a backdoor amnesty. The reason this bill didn't pass in the last session is because the House kept rejecting it and a compromise could not be worked out. The House is now under different control and incoming members are already talking about undoing all that has been done in the immigration area, including scrapping the border fence. If this bill gets through both Houses as I suspect it will the president will sign it into law because it is exactly what he has been lobbying for all along.

DAR: I agree with a large part of what you are saying, but I also hear the rhetoric from many in the new Democrat leadership. I hope that everyone in Congress will act in favor of the wishes of the people on this, but politicians have a way of forgetting the people once elected. The Deocrats are already making statements on a broad range of issues which would indicate that they have misinterpreted what the people were saying in the last election. By their statements the liberals are acting as though they have a mandate, which they definietly don't. I think the Democrats have bigger problem than the Republicans though. The leadership is decidely liberal, but many of the newly elected Democrats are more moderate. I think we will see a great deal of infighting in the party in the next 2 years. Like you I believe it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Answer 3

I think the Dems want amnesty for screened illegals who have been here a long time. Agriculture is huge in California, so Dem or Republican, California Senators want to do something for agriculture (in my view streamlining the H2B visa so there is a registery of screened seasonal-only workers employers can pick from, seasonally, rather than having to start complicated paperwork only once the need is apparent.)

However, I don't think most of the Dems liked the 'guest worker plan' for new temporary workers. They think it creates an underclass that would undermine labor. (They're right.) However, that was what the globalist Republicans wanted in exchange for the amnesty provisions. As Feinstein said about a week ago 'the Senate Bill is too big'. I think she may also try for her 'orange card' scheme again, to get all illegals in, instead of going for more guest workers.

However, the globalist Republicans will not then accept it, and they ALL know immigration is important with Americans, so they will be leery.

Last I saw, the Senate Bill had a provision saying that after 10 years all 'crimes of peonage and border crossing' would have passed their statute of limitations. No one even mentioned that 'rolling amnesty'. There were all sorts of hidden things in that Bill. It is simply a bad vehicle for anything.

I think they may go back to the drawing board, and hope they do. However, it is unclear how the new congress will line up on this. Giffords in Az will vote for the Senate Bill, but might well join her colleagues if they think they can do better. I know some in the mid-west, as in Ohio, while Democrats, ran on a no-amnesty platform or other limited immigration platform.

Good question, but I guess the answer will play out next year.

PS, I don't think they will defund the fence bill. There is only 1.2 bill that CAN be used for that and it CAN be used in other ways too, except for a couple of patches of fence. Too many voted for it, too visably, and if they now retract it will be 'dishonesty' before the election. Do you think any Republican would let them forget that in 2008?

They don't care about fences or 1.2 billion when their jobs are at stake, I think.
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edit - did you see this? http://www.svherald.com/articles/2006/11/18/local_news/news3.txt

Answer 4

It concerns me the dems will try give amnesty to the illegal immigrants because they are trying to make illegals happy. But the dems need to remember the illegals can't vote.

It concerns me they will just open our borders to anyone and everyone including illegal immigrates or terrorist . When some other terrorist plan is carried out on our soil to our people, the dems will stand up in front of the press/media and say the CIA failed again.

Answer 5

I thought I heard Reid and Pelosi say that immigration is not a priority on their to-do-list. Well, except repealing the bill that provided funding for the border fence: I guess that IS something.

Seems global warming is of a higher priority than illegal immigration, and it even trumps terrorism.

Edit: To show I'm not completely blind to reality, I will admit my distaste for our President's policy regarding illegal immigration.
His guest-worker program is nothing but a system for amnesty.
The person below me is correct; the dems will get behind the President on this issue.

Answer 6

Radical leftist democrats that hire lawyers to prevent military votes from being counted endorse the concept of felons and illegal aliens to vote. That is their base! One is known by the company they keep and the concepts they support.
I suspect democrats will strive for a massive non-restrictive amnesty plan, defunding the fence construction bill… Opposition to English as the national language…enforcement of laws that fine employers that knowingly hires Illegals, and sanctions on property owners that willingly rent to Illegals.

Answer 7

You make it sound like they will change something. To them as well as the Republican party, it is all political in nature. The vast majority of the American public have already given their word on this subject. Why their Representatives haven't heard us is a shame. Protect our borders and make people come here legally is all we ask. I predict, nothing will change in 2 years. Congress will talk endlessly over the subject and stall until the 2008 election to bring it up again in order to get more votes in Congress as well as taking over the Presidents post as well.

Answer 8

I think illegal immigration will be tha same. They might just pass a worker program or something.

Answer 9

Unless the American people let them know that we do not want AMNESTY and want these illegals out of our country and tell them in a way that they get the message, then we will have our country turn in to a 3rd world country. It has already started to be just that in many parts of the country.
The silent take over has started and our Government has let it happen!

Answer 10

I think the democrats are going to back Bush on this one. Bush wants to give illegals a chance to become legal but to put them at the end of the line.