They are either stupid, or just so deep in hubris that they don’t realize how bad this sort of thing will be for them – from NRO’s The Corner:
Hillary said this week that the administration might extend Temporary Protected Status to Haitian illegal aliens, an estimated 30,000 of whom are somewhere in the deportation pipeline (and many more haven’t been identified at all). Despite the claim of temporary-ness, this would be, like all past grants of such status, for all practical purposes, permanent. I’m sure with Florida’s unemployment rate at almost 10 percent, that’ll go over really well.
I’m one of the 5.7 people who backed the Bush-McCain immigration reform effort. I want a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for illegals who are long-term residents of the United States. But I wouldn’t touch anything which can even be remotely cast as amnesty with a 10 foot pole right now. I’ll start pushing for a guest-worker program a couple years after we’ve secured the borders, because that is what the American people – by an overwhelming majority – wants. With Obama set to revive some sort of Bush-McCain immigration reform and now Hillary holding out the prospect of amnesty for Haitian illegals, the Democrats are walking down a path which will allow the GOP to paint them – justifiably – as unserious about American national and economic security.
Have at it Dems – and hey, while you’re at it, revive the “assault weapons” ban, ok?
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