Immigration and a Need for Rational Compromise...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Lib e rty -vs- Tyr a nny America must indeed do something to overcome the HU GE immigration problem created over the past thirty three plus years. A problem that everyone (in both parties) one knew was developing and yet no one in either party had any real interest in addressing. So... here we are. Faced with HU GE problem that won;'t go away by itself and will requires some level of rational thinking on the part of both the democrats as well as republicans. Speaker John Boehner may not get it right often, however, when he stated... “we’d be in a much weaker position if we didn’t act" with respect to immigration reform he was EXACTLY right. THE HILL - Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing his conference would be “in a much weaker position” if it failed to act. A divi...