Clinton appears to be getting the immigration issue right. More or less.
Meanwhile, the New York Times figures out why the Republicans embrace an impossible reform: they don’t really want it.
There is a pressing need to lift the burden of fear and separation from families, to unshackle workers who are chained to exploitive jobs by fear of deportation. Mrs. Clinton has shown that she understands this. But meanwhile, the Republicans are stuck in the early 2000s, still talking of border security and illegal invaders. They forget that the 11 million are on this side of the border, and have children, and roots, and jobs, and dreams, and their plight needs to be confronted. Here is a tip: When you hear candidates talking about securing the border — a border that is as secure as it’s ever going to get — that is the sign that they are not interested in a serious conversation. …NYT
Serious conversation? Why reform when you can continue to exploit underpaid and threatened workers who are kept outside the system? If any group in El Norte truly wants reform, it’s not the Republican party. You only have to look at which party — along the border states and right up to Iowa — profits the most from cowering, desperate, low-paid, illegal workers…