Elana Levin

Bush not ready for immigration primetime.

Karl Rove seems to think Bush is doing a heckuva job on immigration policy, but the rest of a America isn't so sure. Check out Tompaine.com this morning and read what DMI's Amy Traub has to say about the "inconsistent and counterproductive half-measures" the President advocated last night in his speech. From a proposal to send the National Guard to the border (but not too many of them, and not for too long) to a plan that offers current unauthorized immigrants permanent citizenship (but not all of them, and not very quickly), to warm and fuzzy rhetoric about a welcoming "nation of immigrants" alongside a scheme for them to come and work for a few years and then get the hell out, Amy concludes that catering to existing prejudices is no way to find genuine common ground in solving our immigration quandary.

If President Bush wants to start looking at the immigration crisis in a productive, constructive, pragmatic and non-pandering way he can check out DMI's immigration policy paper "Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class". You should prob check it out too.

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Posted at 10:41 AM, May 16, 2006 in Immigration
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