The Anchoress Goes Into the Immigration Debate!! (My Thoughts)

The Anchoress that actually has readers has gone into this debate again. I feel for her.

The immigration debate and all its facets is so depressing. It is more emotional than debates over gay marriage, abortion, and other hot button social issues.

The problem is for us folks in the "middle" we get it from all sides. The comment sections are comprised mostly of two folks

If you are concerned about illegal immigration you are a racist

and

If you are for immigration reform you are a deluded fool and a quisling and are for "open borders".

This is also a time where the "right" starts a little Catholic bashing of their own I am sad to say. Which is strange since most Evangelicals and Protestants Church leadership has the same position as the Catholic Church.

Here is what the Anchoress has to say at Immigration & the Storm Next Time
Meanwhile the Democrats and the press (if I am not redundant) understand how well they played the immigration card in 2006 -getting the right all hopped up in May to reap the rewards in November- and so they will be repeating that gambit – manufacturing parades and outrage once again, as they did before. The charges of “racist nazis” will fly; the press will fan the flames, and the situation will become toxic.

I expect that the right -which has done a very good job of ignoring deliberate provocation up to now- will end up losing its composure in this debate, and once that happens, once they let fly with their passions, they will be defeated. The nation may well get behind these new laws but it will not get behind a movement that they perceive to be hysterical, and that is how the right -with the help of multimedia and a few predictable extremists- will be perceived.

In 2006 the right responded to the immigration street theater (mostly organized by A.N.S.W.E.R) with an extreme notion that involved somehow “shipping all illegals back” and rejecting any-and-all plans that included a grandfathering-in of citizens, or what they referred to as “shamnesty.” Demanding a sudden and perfect solution to the problem after 30 years of relative neglect, the right chose doing nothing at all over compromising with President Bush, and so now the issue is still alive, still a potent election tool, and it is in the hands of an opposition that has already proved itself to be ruthlessly willing to do whatever it takes to win, and wholly disinterested in what polls may say.

The political right is not wrong to be concerned about the illegal immigration issue. And it has some valid points to make. But it rather squandered its opportunity to do something comprehensive four years ago. I doubt very much that anything that passes through congress at this point will make the right happy.
So, yes, Neo is correctly sensing a calm before a storm, I think. And this storm is going to be very destructive, indeed.

Well you can bet some don't want to hear that. However everyone on the left and the right are playing their roles.

What gets me about Obama's criticism is he helped kill immigration reform in 2007!!!! Yet he will get a pass from the left and on the right they will do their part to make Obama "open borders". Which is of course false. Obama gets away with not only killing immigration reform but he still gets to blame others and benefit from it.

But we all have our roles to play in this charade and everyone and I mean everyone is doing their best Oscar performance.

Update - I posted this in the comment section
Who will get the best Oscar performance in their roles. The right or the left?

Both are playing their roles to a TEE.

These are the facts We know and have knon for some time there will be no immigration bill this year

We know that Obama helped kill immigration reform in 2007

We know that Obama's Chief of Staff has been very cool to the idea of immigration reform which has inflamed immigration advocates

We know there has been rising anger with Obama over the immigration issue from Immigration Advocates including that deportations are going ahead full speed

We know that Obama has suffered from the Health care debate

To the rescue is the AZ State legislature which has produced a Law that will be tied up in the Federal Courts for some time no doubt

So Obama gets to fool again the folks on the left.

On the right we see people trying to make Obama a friend of illegal aliens.

We are no longer discussing the Health Care bill

Obama gets the fact that he does not have the votes to get his Cap and Trade bill passed of the view of the media

Oh and yes it gives an opportunity for moderate democrats that went out on a limb and voted for the Health Care bill a chance to do a public vocal stance against their President on immigration to appease certain factions and thus recover some votes.

Elements on the right will play their part with some not helpful rethoric that will inflame Latinos. WIN WIN WIN all over something that is going no where this year or next year.