What a perfect opportunity for bipartisan debate … immigration

The theoretical debate, hopefully soon to be a real national debate focused through the Senate, has all the elements of a Hollywood mystery movie. This would be cute, except it is so serious to so many citizens. Hollywood could do no better with millions of illegal aliens being allegedly abused in their US jobs by unscrupulous employers, to the millions of US legal citizens being displaced from their jobs by these same illegal aliens. Add in the mysterious negotiations that prompt 1,000 pages of detailed legislation that may get an up or down vote due to Senate rules requiring quick action in days, and one has all the elements of a conspiracy since no one can read all this in the limited time. And the last part of the movie is the marketing. There is no amnesty in the initial promotion, and there is a strict adherence to qualifications with family connections not being qualifications. But then there are exceptions, to include those with spouses and children. Ha Ha, He He.

Of course when one goes from Hollywood to the real world, things like the House and the Senate agreeing in a joint conference, and the President signing, also come into play. So one should not react too much to what has been happening in the Senate.

Most voting citizens have really strong feelings on the subject of immigration, and the present day illegal immigration numbers and circumstances. Many of these feelings depend on where one sits. Yet, in spite of all this, there has been little debate at the National level, to include our Congress, our elected body of representatives. Out of all this is even more frustration and mistrust about our Congress and Executive. Do they even listen, or care, is the usual comment too often repeated, at least in the rural part of America I now live in. And these rural people are not stupid. Mostly the questions are pretty much common sense, and honest as to the local effects of illegal immigration which is pretty much most of the local effect. The other note is that this is not a cultural friction kind of thing or racial prejudice kind of thing. This is a jobs and respect for community kind of thing.

And there is the element of condescension. Locals assume the “elites in the academia and the mists” don’t expect much more than the locals dieing out as part of their objections and objectives in regards immigration. What is not talked about, but exists, is the knowledge that the “elites in the east” will also die out, and in this is the probability of debate about what is right or wrong.

This author, like all, has strong personal opinions about illegal immigration’s effects today, and the general results today and tomorrow. What I believe in more so is the idea of a national debate on this very serious subject. Our national choices will decide things for the next 50 years or more about our nation. Anything less is a Hollywood movie at best, and a typical ripoff at worse. Right now it seems our politicians are going with the second choice. Now is the time for voters to demand a public debate, and expect to get the same. If the Senate can’t take the lead, then we voters will do it.

And you know what. If we really have a bipartisan debate on the subject with a vote, all Americans will live with the result.