Another Sensible Editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Immigration
There is another common sense editorial in the February 5, 2008 edition of the WSJ pointing out that politicians who run on an anti-immigrant platform are not only wrong on the immigration issue but they typically lose anyway. Rosa Rosales, President of the League of United Latin American Citizens, points out that so far in this primary season, in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, the anti-immigration candidates have performed poorly and the candidates who support some form of comprehensive immigration reform have done well. Anti-immigrant candidates are misreading the electorate.
As Ms. Rosales points out, for example, 57 per cent of voters in Iowa support earned citizenship for the undocumented; in New Hampshire, the issue of illegal immigration was not in the top three most important issues to Democratic voters; and in Florida, Cuban Americans voted 5-1 for John McCain over Mitt Romney. McCain favors a path to legalization while Mitt Romney does not--although he did when he was Governor of Massachusetts. I guess he was for immigration reform before he was against it.
The point is clear: Americans are in favor of comprehensive immigration reform during this Presidential primary season just as much as they were last summer when the U.S. Senate shot it down. Let's hope that the next President has a Congress that he or she can work with to get some meaningful reform passed quickly.
That would be in everyone's best interest.
