the Obama Administration’s failure to act on immigration reform

The Catch 22 of Immigration Reform

Dateline: June 28, 2010

It’s a terrible Catch-22. For years now the powers that be in Washington have done next to nothing to help define and refine the nation’s immigration laws. So states and municipalities have started to tackle the job themselves. However, when the ‘locals’ are finally exasperated enough to take action they’re hauled into court for encroaching on the federal government’s purview!

Let me get this straight. The Feds won’t act to fix our immigration mess but the states can’t do anything either because it’s the Feds’ job? Oh, what a paralyzed mess we’ve become in this country!

We’ve all heard about what Arizona did. [click to continue…]

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