With Immigration, Their Fight Is Our Fight
The immigration issue has percolated a long time now. For years, reformers attempted to pass comprehensive legislation in Congress only to get opposition from extreme, xenophobic forces within the Republican Party. Even George W. Bush tried to get a deal and failed to defeat the viciously right-wing.
Opponents of solutions on immigration have aimed their attacks squarely at President Obama since he took office. Their vitriol has intensified, however, in the time since the last election and especially since the president passed a version of the DREAM Act via an executive order that allowed undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children to stay and achieve legal status.
The culmination of this criticism of Obama has come with this current crisis as children cross the border. While President Obama —who has said repeatedly that he does not believe in amnesty — tries to come up with a compassionate, common sense approach to this problem, he’s gotten only a politically-motivated roadblock from the Republican Party.
While he’s been reaching out to the other side to try and work together, ideological extremists and transparent political opportunists like Texas Gov. Rick Perry have done everything they can to tear him down. It's disgusting, and it's a disservice to this country. It’s time to do something fundamentally different on this issue, to finally come up with a substantive solution.
http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/07/24/op-ed-immigration-their-fight-our-fight
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