Yesterday, the president spoke in Texas, on the need for immigration reform, and renewed a call for comprehensive immigration reform. The president stated, "we've seen leaders of both parties who try to work on this issue, but then their efforts fell prey to the usual Washington games. And all the while, we've seen the mounting consequences of decades of inaction." The unfortunate part of this narrative is the president is part of the problem with Washington and is playing politics with the immigration debate. In 2008, then candidate Obama promised repeatedly that his first year in office he would introduce comprehensive immigration reform legislation, nothing was introduced even though Democrats controlled Congress by wide margins in both the House and Senate.
Even today, the president gives flowery rhetorical speeches, but still no legislation has been introduced by this administration. Both sides play partisan politics with the issues and still nothing gets accomplished.
In the president's speech, nothing at all was mentioned about Mexico's role in regard to immigration. Each time the president of Mexico visit's the U.S., he is never asked what is his country doing to create economic opportunities for his own people.
It's time for both parties to get a reality check and stop partisan politics, but that will be hard to do with the 2012 election on the horizon.
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