A recent NY Times article about hardliner ideas for immigration reform mentions a few ideas. Leaders in the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Steve King (R-Iowa), have begun unveiling some drastic changes.
There are plans to build a bigger, better, wall on the Mexico-US border complete with spiral barbed wire. The likelihood of raids on suspected illegal immigrants, more money spent on border patrol, and harsher restrictions on the USA’s foreign born population. The article above mentions that many of such politicians like Smith & King are potentially interested in disqualifying children from citizenship if they are born in the US to illegal immigrants as they keep people coming here. According to this articl
Those seem like harsh accusations to me and the “anchor baby” sentiment likely marginal. But looking at Texans For Lamar Smith, he is alleging that immigration “is a national security issue as well as an economic issue, especially with millions of American citizens and legal immigrants out of work.” According to this article in Mother Jones, Steve King compared border-crossers to livestock, asserted that President Obama “favors the black person,” and described illegal immigration as a “slow-motion terrorist attack.”
A valid question has been raised. Do you know who is going to be leading our immigration reform over the next few years?
Immigration to the Americas has always been a ” slow-motion terrorist attack”, as seen by the indigenous peoples of the continents. Now that the Europeans have ‘conquered’ the US and Canada, some of them are fearful of the new (illegal)immigrants- the Mexicans to the US primarily, but also those from the middle east or south Asia.
Here in Canada, we periodically have uproars when large groups of illegal migrants arrive on our shores in large boats. However, every day, there are many arriving via air who claim refugee status. But, as one group puts it, no one should be illegal.
And who really is the ‘terrorist’?
Thanks for sharing. That’s the same story that has been stuck on repeat for a few hundred years.
Great question.