Why Don't Politicians Get Immigration Reform?

"Among the many mine-fields the primary candidates are required to walk through is the one most commonly called 'Immigration Reform.' As is typical with such issues, the rhetoric over time is softened and the politicians agree upon a few things they can say in public venues without shooting themselves in the foot or committing themselves to real action. And so we hear from both parties familiar words and phrases: limited amnesty; enforcement of existing laws; a process leading to citizenship; border security; immigrant rights and the like," says Evan Goranson for Family Security Matters. "The reality remains that in an era when our government has devised a color code to alert citizens to the terror threat level, our national borders are still pervious. And, I am convinced, that focusing on Immigration Reform is a convenient way of avoiding the true issue: border incursion and the threat to our national security."

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