New Arizona Immigration Enforcement Laws

It wasn't a defense of Obama, obviously. It was a shot at Bush and the peabrains who worship his memory.

 

And more are continuing to be hired, but it wasn't close to enough and still isn't.

He failed to attack the demand side. He favored allowing US business to keep employing illegal aliens. The problem has to fought from both sides--supply and demand. Stop the jobs and they can't afford to come over.

"America's immigration system is outdated, unsuited to the needs of our economy and to the values of our country. We should not be content with laws that punish hardworking people and deny businesses willing workers and invite chaos at our border. "--George W. Bush

 

I blame placing the entire problem on Obama, when he's only been in charge for a year and none of the last four or five administrations have done anything effective. The point, that you missed, was that both parties are letting election politics interfere with taking concrete action.

I've seen the little shrine in your yard.

 

Yes, the problem is Obama's now to fix or fail to fix. But it is a problem he inherited and his predecessors share the blame for it's size. That's why I don't let Purp get away with labeling everything that he doesn't like as an Obama/Democrat issue, when it is far more complex. The GOP has done nothing better and proposes nothing better.

 

But they did. I never held Bush accountable for problems he inherited.

 

Congress has been declining in effectiveness and in public support for 30 years now and I ain't sure what its all about. Changing hands between parties doesn't seem to change much. It may be the polarization of the parties into far right and far left parties with a few scattered moderates. From WWII into the 70's, the parties were both mostly left- and right- leaning moderate with a few scattered extremists. The intolerance to accept any part whatsoever of the other party's policies is leaving a power vacuum in the middle, waiting for someone to establish a moderate party that can compete with the left and right. The progressive Democrats are not ready to cut loose the liberal ideologues and the enlightened republicans are not ready to cut loose the conservative ideologues.

Something has to happen for the center-leaning democrats and republicans to find more in common with each other and less with the radical elements. I don't know what.