TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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People make their way to a naturalization ceremony at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Irving, Texas. Key Democratic and Republican senators are pledging to get a wide-ranging immigration bill through the Senate by summer even as they point to numerous pitfalls ahead. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Who could possibly be against this?

BY Dave Ross  on January 29, 2013 @ 5:42 am (Updated: 8:08 am - 1/29/13 )

A group of senators is proposing immigration reform - real comprehensive immigration reform.

There's a framework with stuff that appeals to conservatives.

"We have to have a real enforcement mechanism to insure we're never here again in the future," said Senator Marco Rubio.

And stuff that appeals to liberals.

"People who are here living in the shadows would get a legal right to stay here and work," said Senator Charles Schumer.

Senators were so determined to appeal to Hispanic voters - they started acting as their own interpreters.

First, Senator Marco Rubio started making his proposals in in Spanish. And after hearing Rubio, of course Democrat Bob Menendez decided maybe one more question needed answering - in Spanish. Even John McCain translated his trademark straight talk, simply saying "vamonos."

But there are clouds moving in on this rainbow because the bottom line of the compromise, is that most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants will get to stay here legally while they wait for green cards, which prompted a question for Senator McCain on FOX.

"Won't we have a flood of illegal immigrants coming across the border trying to beat the clock? Saying 'I have to get there, because if I just get there I'll be able to stay'?"

And ABC's Nightline featured a pro-wrestler the Mexican themed Lucha Libre Tour. RJ Brewer whose real name is John Stagikas is a star among Hispanic audiences. But you ask him about immigration, "I refuse to be an immigrant and a minority in my own country - enough is enough."

Get ready America - it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    somethings never change
    January 29, 2013 8:25 pm
    "We should build a wall of brass around the country." - John Jay, first chief justice of Supreme Court, regarding “Catholic alien invaders,” 1750s ... "What means the paying of the passage and emptying out upon our shores such floods of pauper emigrants — the contents of the poor house and the sweepings of the streets? — multiplying tumults and violence, filling our prisons, and crowding our poor-houses, and quadrupling our taxation, and sending annually accumulating thousands to the poll to lay their inexperienced hand upon the helm of our power?" - Lyman Beecher, Leader of the Second Great Awakening, on English immigrants, 1834 ... "Standing behind them are Christian employers of this land, who would rather import heathen willing to work for barely enough to sustain life than retain a brother Christian at a wage sufficient to live as becomes a Christian. We do not want Opium or the Chinese who grow it." - Terence Powderly, Irish-American labor leader, 1892
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood
    January 29, 2013 10:14 pm

    Now that's some real talk right there. Could you please remove your foot from everybody's a55 please. People are too dumb to know what there own history was and the mistakes that was made during them.

    They did the same thing to the Chinese immigrants during the great depression, every time they his a financial crisis, they start to want to kick people out or stigmatize them because they can't compete.

    "During the Great Depression, APAs and other minorities were scapegoated as economic competitors and victimized by violence caused by rumors and race-based hatreds. In January 1930, for example, a mob estimated at 500 angry whites beat Filipino American migrant workers in Watsonville, Calif., killing one of them."

    Luckily the Republican party care more about political power and public office than there uninformed base or they would be chasing the Mexican across the border with there beloved "assault weapons".

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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    LOL
    January 30, 2013 11:35 am
    They sure did change their tune mighty quick huh?
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