Immigration Issue is Just Completely Over Politicized
Why do we have to address the issues of temporary migrant worker status and border security at the same time? These are unrelated issues. Why do we have to address one before we address the other? There is no critical path here.
The analogy has been used that if your boat is flooding you plug the leak before you bail water. That's true if you have limited resources. If you have enough resources you plug the leak and bail water at the same time. Why can't we work on both issues simultaneously. We should be able to go after employers of illegal immigrants by enforcing current laws and work on initiatives to secure our borders at the same time. Also reforming laws that grant visas to immigrants can be done while we enforce the current laws and protect our borders. There is no reason not to separate these issues other than the fact that joining them at the hip will allow people to disagree on certain points. Legislation in congress is too often stifled by this kind of aggregation of separate issues. Certainly the issues fall in the same realm in dealing with the ignored issue of illegal immigration on our southern border, yet they remain separate issues. I'm not saying I have a solution to the problem or even that I have a clue about what would be required to solve them, I just think that it could and should be broken into separate, more easily solvable problems.
The analogy has been used that if your boat is flooding you plug the leak before you bail water. That's true if you have limited resources. If you have enough resources you plug the leak and bail water at the same time. Why can't we work on both issues simultaneously. We should be able to go after employers of illegal immigrants by enforcing current laws and work on initiatives to secure our borders at the same time. Also reforming laws that grant visas to immigrants can be done while we enforce the current laws and protect our borders. There is no reason not to separate these issues other than the fact that joining them at the hip will allow people to disagree on certain points. Legislation in congress is too often stifled by this kind of aggregation of separate issues. Certainly the issues fall in the same realm in dealing with the ignored issue of illegal immigration on our southern border, yet they remain separate issues. I'm not saying I have a solution to the problem or even that I have a clue about what would be required to solve them, I just think that it could and should be broken into separate, more easily solvable problems.
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