The DREAM Act — which would provide an arduous, borderline draconian path to citizenship to people brought illegally to the United States as children — passed the House yesterday. Later today, after a Republican filibuster, Having been tabled for the moment, it will soon be fiilbustered and thus fail to even come up for a vote in the Senate, dooming it for good.
Smart peopple — Conor Friedersdorf, Michael Gerson, and others — have presented unasaillable logical arguments for supporting DREAM. It will generate income for the country, encourage a better-educated workforce, reduce the risk to employers of unwittingly hiring illegals, free up Homeland Security resources to address more urgent border-security problems, incentivise military service, foster more cooperation between immigrant communities and law enforcement — there is quite literally no rational reason to oppose the measure.
This has not stopped the GOP (three of whose elder statesmen, Hatch, Lugar, and McCain, once spearheaded its creation) from opposing DREAM on ostensibly logical grounds. It will, the party's argument now goes, encourage further illegal immigration.
Which is complete nonsense...
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/dream-act-vote-2010-4237483?src=rss
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