Anti Immigration Reform Forces Marshalled to Kill Bill

     There's a determination on the Right to kill reform in its crib. We saw early that some opponents will go anywhere to attack it-even using the Boston Marathon bombings.

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     There is a group that calls itself Federation for American Immigration Reform that is directly opposed to increasing immigration reform. They have a website full of attacks on it with a picture of Rubio's face at the top of the page. There's a huge headline "Amnesty 2013! How You Can Stop It." Another piece purports to explain how immigration hurts Oregonians fiscally and another how it hurts New Mexicans on the fiscal side.

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      This group tries to argue that Americans are worse off with immigration; their goal is apparently the less immigration the better. They must not be familiar with the economies of Europe and Japan lately were both are suffering from declining birth rates. A major positive factor in economic growth is population growth. A large part of the story of Japan's 20 year stagnation-there's now hope that Abenomics will turn this finally-has been Japan's total hostility to immigration. It's hard to find a good reason for this opposition that's not about prejudice. The most coherent reason to oppose it seems to be that Latinos don't vote Republican.

      "Right wing gears up to kill immigration reform: Related to the above, just look at the mobilization that’s already underway among conservatives, documented in today’s big New York Times overview of the immigration debate:

The Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has called for reducing levels of illegal immigration, organized a two-day summit meeting of nearly four-dozen conservative talk radio hosts from around the country. The hosts descended on the nation’s capital to broadcast their concerns to listeners back home that the new bill amounted to “amnesty.” … Senators Jeff Sessions of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana, both Republicans, held a competing news conference during which they denounced the bill.

     "The right is not going to make it easy for the GOP to repair its relations with Latinos or to keep pace with America’s changing demographics."

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/04/19/the-morning-plum-foes-of-immigration-reform-pounce-on-boston-bombing/

      Well this goes to the fact that many things that very much need doing engender implacable opposition. This gives more gist to the point of Greg Sargent, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and other immigration reform proponents that true reform is a long game that often takes a long time. Consider how long it took to get healthcare. Even the assassination of President Kennedy wasn't enough to achieve gun control: that also took the assassinations of his brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Brady had to wait many years for the Brady bill. 

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    The gun control debate is not over but only just starting. Immigration reform on the other hand had it's moment of defeat in 2007. This time I think it has enough to get it over the finish line regardless of the determined opposition.