Democratic Stand on Immigration Issue

The diverse stand on the the issue of immigration in our country has become a political weapon used by the Republican Party against the Democrats. As the presidential race emerges and the political campaigns are being formed immigration is an issued that can not be put on hold.

Democrats have always been seen as having a welcoming stance on immigration. Their liberal views have helped many immigrants become legal residents and citizens of this country by the many programs and laws passed under their command. With the recently immigration marches and issues that have raised in the last decade, this issue is something definitely in the agenda of the 2008 elections.

"If Democrats turn a blind eye to the public concerns about immigration, it would be a mistake," said Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas). Republicans feel that the issue of immigration is something that will give them the win in 2008 because of the diverse political view that is split down the middle in the democratic party.

There has been many immigration issues that have emerged recently that have shown the Democratic unsure views. "In Virginia, for instance, where Democrats took control of the state Senate, one high- profile victory came in the Washington suburbs, where the winner distributed mailings in the campaign's closing days proclaiming his opposition to in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants," and "the Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and in the presidential campaign, in which party front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has struggled to explain whether she supports the Spitzer plan or not."

These issues an other show that the democratic party is not united in the issue of immigration. The Republican Party will definitely use this as a weapon to win the 2008 presidential election. But the Democratic Party refuses to accept their unsure views and says they will keep their image and not follow Republican ideals as it has been instated before.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-immig11nov11,1,6588376.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Written By: Sergio Morelos