Compromise immigration bill -- yea or nay?

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I am like Mitt Romney. I don’t have an immigration bill of my own, but I hate everyone else’s. Any immigration bill must start with eliminating illegal immigrants. You can do it by granting amnesty in some form or by deporting those who are here. I favor the second method, even if it requires financial incentives to get them to return. There will never be an excuse, so far as I can see for rewarding those who break the law. Never.

If you want to increase the immigrant quotas from those countries that currently have the most illegals, go ahead, as long as you decrease others to make room for them. This is not an issue of racism. If you want to restrict immigration to those of Hispanic origin because there own countries are so screwed up, I would not agree but I would not fight it, but rewarding illegal behavior is wrong and un-American. You must deport those who have broken the law and cheated to gain acess ahead of those who have played by the rules. I can’t believe that so many do not see this as a right/wrong issue.

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Doing that would help farmers in developing nations around the globe. Crops are one of the products developing countries can produce cheaper than the US. They’d get some hard cash, and we’d spend less on food. Sounds win-win to me.

Aside from the usual pork/special interest voodoo keeping the subsidies, there’s also the desire to keep them as a bargaining tool in World Trade Organization talks.

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Looks like it’s dead in the water for the moment. :: heavy sigh ::

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The problem is that in order to get enough people to sign onto amnesty, you have to convince people that this is going to be the last time we give out amnesty and that we will effectively stem the flow of illegal immigration.

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Harry Reid is trying again.