I'm glad this thing failed and I hope everything similar to it in any way, shape or form, fails in the near future.
Actually, I hope everything and anything that gives any benefit of any kind to any illegal fails.
I hope they fail, and continue to fail, until such a point that laws are passed and actuall ENFORCED for a reasonable amount of time that significantly improve border security, employer enforcement, and deportation/rounding up of illegals in this country.
If the government shows it will SERIOUSLY deal with the law enforcement and protective sides of these things then we can perhaps talk. If they show they will not just give it lip service but actually show sustained and tangiable efforts then we can perhaps talk. If they can do this and do this for at least 6 months to a year then you know what? I'd be happy to talk about giving benefits to children who were brought over, or a path to citizenship, or even perhaps TALK about some kind of amnesty.
But until such a time as the above happens, I hope every single solitary one of these type of things fail and fail hard. You do not "fix" this problem by rewarding it time and time again while giving lip service to any form of punishment or enforcement.
And that goes double for any bill trying to push benefit type things along by trying to say its "compromising" by giving security or enforcement. That is an age old trick, its what helped cause amnesty the last time, and we shouldn't fall for it again. Enforcement takes time, and effort, to happen. Security takes time, and effort, to happen. Don't fund it, have the executive not persue it strongly, and its effecitvely worthless. Where as things like amnesty or acceptance to colleges, etc can happen immedietely and need little extra help. Which means one end happens while the other part never comes to be.
I'm glad its blocked. I hope all others of it continue to be blocked. Until the Government starts doing its damn job they all need to be blocked.
