2013: Immigration Reform | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: What dooms immigration reform, if anything does, is an unscrupulous agri-business industry that thrives on undocumented labor. If we seriously want to solve the problem of human bondage in the food industry, do a federal repeal of right to work law and repeal all immigration reform (or simply stop enforcing it). The administration has done too much to meet the GOP on the enforcement side. Maybe it should start going the other way.
As for tying gay rights to immigration, it won't happen. There is no need for a legislative solution since both Proposition 8 and DOMA are clearly violative of the rights of an existing class worthy of protection. (You can define worth of protection by attempts to persecute it - take that as it will on HHS - although that issue has been a moot point since December 2000 - at least as far as insurance companies go).
The other real problem is that the African American underclass might just take some of the jobs immigrants now take. There may be fractures in the Democratic coalition that have not yet surfaced because the Democrats are having so much fun watching business Republicans and Tea Party Republicans fight over this issue.
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