Should current 'gang of eight' immigration reform eventually go through, one thing you will be able to say about it without much question is that it amounts to maybe the most dumb ass way ever to swell the ranks of a great country - just admitting in ten to fifteen million illegals of unknown quality, skills and virtues simply because, as bad as it seems, all the alternatives seemed worse. Rubio has gone on Spanish language TV and said for sure legalization before border security - which to me is idiocy, I don't get that - but who knows, maybe he's right in saying it's the only way - all I know is that we've created a huge mess for ourselves through short sighted stupidity - I mean can you think of a worse way to swell the ranks of your country by ten to fifteen million people? It seems almost a certainty that a hundred years from now historians will look back and say one of the worst mistakes ever made by a great nation was America's abysmal failure to secure its southern border.
And please tell me how this plays out in any way that doesn't end in benefiting the Democrats? Conservatives may swallow the bitter pill because they feel they have no choice, but all that means is that they were stupid enough to allow themselves to be put in a position where they had no choice. Sure, when blacks figure out that all these newly legal low skill workers means that their employment prospects just got a whole lot worse, that might hurt Democrats a bit on election day - but what, are African-Americans suddenly then gonna go out and vote conservative? I don't think so. If you're a Democrat you're thinking, our numbers among blacks maybe go down a bit, but our numbers among Hispanics go up, maybe by a lot - that's a win.
Again, I'm willing to admit that considering all the bad alternatives this legislation, given that the Democrats are really in the catbird seat here and by demagoguing 'race' can force unpalatable compromises on the GOP, is possibly the best that can be hoped for - but just because it may be your only option doesn't therefore make it a good option - it's about as dumb ass as you can get when it comes to a great country doing immigration reform - essentially we're significantly changing the demographics and therefore culture of the country because our stupidity has forced the change upon us and not because we wilfully made a sensible, informed choice. And the problem with bad immigration policy as opposed to bad economic policy that can be reversed or bad foreign policy that can be reversed [although possibly not before Pandora's box has been ripped open with a passion] - how do you unwind the negative effects of a dumb ass immigration policy? As Europe is finding out, you can't.
