The chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force compared today’s DREAM Act deferment implementation to Haitian earthquake refugees and said the new rules are necessary to create “symmetry” between immigration status and being American.
“What we’re attempting to do is take about 2 million young people and try to make some symmetry between — they are really much more American than they are immigrant. And today, we’re going to begin the process where their status, their immigration status and reality of their American life and their American being, that there’s symmetry and parity between the two,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said this morning on CNN.
“Look, this has happened before through temporary protection status when there was the earthquake in Haiti. There were thousands of Haitians that applied for temporary protective status. It’s happened before,” he continued. “These programs work. They’re not perfect. But young people are brave and by showing up in line, they are changing and making the process irreversible.”
Illegal immigrant youths began lining up today to apply for deferred enforcement status under the new rules directed by President Obama.
Gutierrez defended that executive action in lieu of Congress not acting swiftly enough on the DREAM Act.
“Across this country today, there is great enthusiasm,” he said. “You will see the lines of young beautiful people. And America will be better because of it. So, I applaud the president’s action.”
I am now a supporter of 1948-style partition of the United States into two or more separate Republics, perhaps sharing a very limited common federal architecture for mainly self-defense purposes (but precious little else), with partition to be by some means such as zip code, voting precinct, etc. Partition to be approved by plebiscite.
I say all this because we are growing apart as a people and what they on the other side wish I cannot countenance, and what I consider essential they regard as something to merely be ignored. This being that case, it may best to just go ahead and get a divorce as a nation.
In that case, should it occur, Mr. Gutierrez could do whatever the hell he wanted in his part of the former United States. I wouldn’t care, as long as they understand they would be funding it themselves.
I can finally see the genius in Obama. The workforce has been shrinking as more people become dependent. He thought we needed an infusion of labor so he just legalized 2 million new workers. /sarc
The country is on it’s way to hell and this anchor baby thinks it’s fine to reward law breakers. Are we sick or what?