Immigration Insanity!

Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria (Another Chance on Immigration. WP 11/6/06) shows the typical corporate elite media response to the illegal immigration issue. First, he tries to downplay it's importance to the American people by claiming it is only fifth on a list of concerns. After Iraq, terrorism, the economy and health care. The fact that is one of the top ten issues should make any politician (except maybe George Bush) wake up and take notice.
He then goes on to say it will make “political sense” for the politicians to come together and make a “deal”on illegal immigration. He cites that John McCain because of his pushing the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill in the senate needs to get the illegal immigration of the table before his run for President. Oh really? So rather than be concerned about the effect and costs of the influx of illegal immigrants into communities around the country it is more important for the Washington politicians to get the issue hidden from view as soon as possible. The public be damned! Zakaria's elitism is showing again.
He then says “comprehensive reform” aka amnesty is the only way forward. But, ignores the history of illegal immigration policy. In 1986 Congress granted an amnesty to the three million illegal immigrants estimated to be in the U.S. at that time. Today, there are an estimated twelve to twenty million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and he wants the politicians to do another amnesty. Of course he and the other elites call it “comprehensive reform”. Expecting different results from another amnesty program as Zakaria proposes is the very definition of insanity.