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Over the last couple of years as this column has become more widely read and because I have taken a specific position on Immigration reform that doesn’t quite follow the conventional wisdom of the politicos or the media, I have been faced with a number of debates. More and more the arguments focus on making new laws and calling people with different views, all kinds of names.
I have read the “touted” discussions on the matter such as the Cato Institute offerings, and others such as those published by “U.S. Foreign Policy In Focus” and written Dr. George Weissenger of New York Institute of Technology.
My thirty years in Border Enforcement in Customs as a troop and as a manager, as an instructor in INS and Customs cross training, and as an instructor in the Overseas Training Program providing guidance to foreign Border Officials keeps telling me that there are things that we are missing as we watch the changing positions.
So far the only organized rational examination of the issues has been found in Ruben Navarrette’s columns. His most recent “Blame the Democrats” with its focus on the political rational, for the Democrats, Republicans, Democrat/Republicans and the Republican/Democrats, as well as their constituencies like “big labor” helped put a new perspective on some of the bits of information identified in my earlier research.
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