AMERICA HAS VOTED

By Nathan J. Muller
www.ForTheCause.US

The results of the November mid-term elections did not appear to move the dial on illegal immigration. Although voters did not come out as forcefully against illegal immigration as we would have liked, enough crumbs have fallen off the table to give us reason to believe that amnesty and a path to citizenship for guest workers will not come to fruition, even under a Democrat-controlled Congress that appears to side with President Bush on the need for “comprehensive” immigration reform. In fact, there is no need for panic just yet.

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At the federal level, the mid-term election really had no bearing on illegal immigration; the overriding issues were anger with Bush for the lack of progress in Iraq, the culture of corruption fostered by the Republican Party, and a Congress that just couldn’t get its act together on anything meaningful for the middle class. Therefore, the Democrats do not have a mandate to pass anything that even looks like amnesty. To do so would introduce an element of risk in their quest to get to the next level - full restoration of party dominance in 2008. Instead of campaigning in support of amnesty, Democrats ran on strong border security as the first order of business.

Some believe there will be quick action by the Democrats to grant amnesty or “earned citizenship” to illegal aliens in an attempt to remove it as a campaign obstacle well before 2008. Ostensibly, this would give voters time to forget. But any new federal program would take time to ramp up, which means its effects would peak right before the election.

Even with their new majority in Congress, Democrats will not risk alienating the middle class by having them watch our border being overrun following an amnesty. This would jeopardize their pursuit of the Holy Grail: the election of Hillary Clinton as President in 2008. Democrats have just witnessed the wrath of voters; they dare not bring it on themselves with any rash moves. Senator Clinton will have something to say about that. (more…)