Heat, hate decreasing on immigration as issue

One positive about the declining economy has been a decrease in the political temperature on the issue of immigration.

The New York Times reports that undocumented human beings in the New York City area are looking to return home after no longer being able to find consistent work. That means the politicians who have promoted hate against these human beings will lose a foil to promote themselves and their careers.

Congresspeople like Tom Tancredo and Marsha Blackburn will lose an issue that represents most of their public policy agenda. This shift in immigration patterns -- like a drained swimming pool -- will reveal the disgusting muck within each of these lawmakers.

TV entertainers such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and others like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly will have to find another myth-maker in their dirty bags of tricks.

Immigration from Mexico has declined by 25%, reports The Wall Street Journal. So overall, immigration as an issue is as old as last night's meatloaf. Any meaningful attempt at immigration reform in Congress will not come until 2010 or 2011. The new president will need the time to fix the economy first.

However, Michele Obama has promised that her husband in the White House would stop ICE raids of workplaces that demean human beings and families and destroy entire towns -- besides cost taxpayers $52 million as in an Iowa raid that deported just 389 workers earlier this year.

A President Obama could also dismantle the Clinton era machinery that has allowed for the punitive 287g deportation program in places such as Nashville.

And that's good news for a better future in this nation free of all the heat and hate.

To read more, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/nyregion/20laborers.html?hp