Immigration
Consider for a moment Ronald Reagan’s grant of blanket amnesty to illegal aliens back in the mid-1980’s. Well, now consider how much further along we’d be in dealing with the 30 year-old problem of illegal immigration if Reagan had not signed off on that flotsam & jetsam piece of legislation by Ted Kennedy and other liberal minions in Congress.
Dutch, if you’re listening, you were the greatest, but on that one you should have brought out the veto pen, Chief.
It’s nearly 20 years later and now the ongoing problem of illegal immigration finally has come to the forefront.
Ultimately we will obtain comprehensive immigration reforms.
Despite the non-voting and anti-GOP conservative blocs. Despite the remnants of the old liberal media juggernaut. Despite all those young students out there who reflexively hate the Republican Party.
Since Reagan left office we’ve obtained further tax reforms, comprehensive criminal law & sentencing reforms, major tort reforms, trade reforms, and comprehensive welfare reforms. That’s reality. Reality doesn’t change because rich liberals in Tiburon or Greenwich are angry and confused.
Immigration reforms will follow along the same paths.
There will need to be some mechanism for more efficient deportations of criminal aliens. There will need to be some reality-based measure for dealing with the realities of the labor markets and the needs of small businesses.
In the end we’ll get some type of {gulp} compromise. Just like tax reforms. Trade reforms. Welfare reforms. Tort reforms. Just like de-regulation reforms. Etc.
Structural immigration reforms are inevitable. They’ll be much further to the right than to the left. The only remaining question is what will be in the fine print.
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