Why do so many people blame the Liberals for not enforcing illegal immigration laws?

Question

The Republicans have been in power for the last 6 years, the Democrats just won the house. Why do you blame just the liberal/democrats? I am an old school Democrat in terms of standing up for the working class and fighting corporate America. Sure, there are some stupid Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and others who are just so in love with their new found glory that they are as far removed from people like me as they are from Republicans. I don't think you can bring party affiliation into the immigration debate. C'mon.

alberto g - this is where I split from the democrats, not all dems are on board with their agenda, there are a lot of us

All I ask is keep partisan politics out of this debate, there is no 'right' party, this is beyond that dribble

sociald - I appreciate your input, I just don't like when someone says, "Blame the Democrats", hey that's not entirely correct. As a side note: is your avatar name derived from the punk band Social Distortion?, I love those guys, got to meet the lead man at the Bluebird

Norman V - right on. It's not a party issue, we can point fingers all day, so people, I ask you, please quit voting party only, vote issues.

Hillary Clinton didn't stand up for John Kerry when he made the bad joke of "....if you don't study and work hard, you get stuck in Iraq...", this was obviously a slam on George Bush, but was intentionally misinterpretated by the spin machine to say that Kerry was knocking the troops. If you hear it all in context, you understand the joke (badly delivered). Why did Hilary Clinton demand an apology along with John McCain (R) Arizona ?
It's all about political positioning, wake up people

swirlsgirl - it's just so beyond you isn't it?
enough of your semi-detached answers, I reject you answers
get off your oh so high pulpet

Answer 1

I certainly am not blaming liberals for this issue. I may blame them for some others but this issue is being totally ignored by all but a handful of politicians from any party.

Yes trackslag Social Distortion is one of my all time favorite bands. Seen them 3 times.

Answer 2

There are people in every party that beleive somehow we are all going to sit around a campfire and toast marshmellows together, if we keep doing for some special group and make everything all perfectly equal. The idea of a world without some sort of conflict is an illusion. Whether it be rich and poor, black or white, left or right, doesn't matter. I think liberals keep the hope alive that if we just let everybody do what moves them....it will all work out. I beleived it for awhile. Unfortunatly I realized that without conflict.....there is no growth.

Get a group of toddlers together. They will argue over who has the red cup and who has the blue cup. Get them all red or blue cups and they will find something else to fight over. It's sad to say.....but it doesn't seem we were ment to "get along" in a perfect world. Rich people aren't happy. Poor always think the rich have it better. Yet if you interview people on their death bed....their happiest times are the times when they had nothing or there was some conflict. I'm not making a judgement of right or wrong......I just think liberals think a time with no friction means peace. It's just not the case though.

There is evil out there. People aren't all honest "by nature". There is still a win loose mentality and our human frailties far out weigh our strengths.

"Necessity is the mother of invention"......"Love conquors all"........at each point, good or bad....we are pushed to a limit. There's only so much "understanding" till we blow. We "forgive" only so much. "Forget" only so much.

It's funny......coz when I read your discriptions of the parties......it was just about the opposite when I was young. I gave up "parties" long ago. That's why it doesn't matter who is the "majority" or "minority" anymore. You can be a liberal republican or a conservative liberal or a moderate democrat......???????
Parties are long gone.....they just don't know that yet.

Answer 3

It just didn't start in the past 6 years, it took several more. Clinton was in office (D), before him, Bush sr. (R), Reagan (R), Carter (D), Ford (R). People noticed the illegals in the 60" but didn't think much about it. Year after year people watched & did nothing. Now is the time to place blame. It is the fault of every person that the American people elected. I believe that the government needs to start treating the American people like the treat the illegal immigrants. They get a great deal here. God help us all if they all keep going the way they have been for the last several years.

Answer 4

The only thing that stopped the Senate bill from passing the house, the same bill that bush wanted, which was basically amnesty, were the Republican Congress they would not pass it. Now that the Dem's are the majority, they will see to it that every dam illegal gets amnesty or a way to get citizen ship, all that will do is open the door for more. To bad the Reps could not hold on the the house. But it is their own fault. All the politicians are gutless. They can't stand up for their own country.

Answer 5

If Americans are smart they wont vote dem or rebub. Its time We Americans have a different choice. A choice for tax payers,a real American who runs for president because he wants whats right in America,one who doesent need illegals votes.Just by being counted in the census, illegals give political power to special groups. Many illegals fraudulently vote anyway and there is strong evidence that some key elections have been upset by illegal voters. Politicians represent the "people" even if those people are illegal aliens. Since the number of representatives in congress is fixed, any increase in population in California, for example, due to illegal immigration will require more representation for that group while taking away representation from people in other states. Most politicians that represent areas of large illegal population, vote in the interest of illegal aliens since they are the ones they represent. A president that doesent think money is everything. I say Joe Arpaio for president.

Answer 6

This might explain some of it:

http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/lowry/lowry200603240723.asp

Also, Pelosi IS the Majority Leader. And Kennedy wants amnesty for illegals.

I think it's because the liberal, democrat leaders are all for helping the illegals.

In addition, when I speak with my liberal friends, they tend to say, "We're ALL immigrants" and when I speak with my conservative friends they say, "Send 'em all back!"

But you're also right - I think you gotta follow the money more than the party. People who are making/saving money from cheap labor want illegals here. Whether they're Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative doesn't have a lot to do with it.

Answer 7

Blaming one party over another won't solve anything. This country needs to make decisions and stick with the consequences. I want to see something get done NOW in Congress.

Answer 8

i think the repubs, especially the business-cozy ones, are also to blame. but when you have a majority of republicans voting for a fence on the border, and a new democrat majority agreeing to "re-examine" funding for the fence, it's hard to see who's side their on, the side of american taxpayers and workers, or on the side of business interests and mexico.

Answer 9

I don't BLAME anyone. I leave that to you and yours.

I figure if you keep fighting amongst yourselves on WHO IS RIGHT and WRONG you will eventually alienate the normal people and we can then start really working on the problem.

OH and that comment went for political parties and the division you and yours like to make.

Answer 10

Don't forget the Republican Congress during the Clinton Years.