Immigration has suddenly become a hot button topic in the U.S. political scenario and even Senators from northern and midwestern states vying for the Presidential position are trumpeting their views on strict immigration control. The Democrats have been largely silent or at least ambivalent about immigration control. While most of them believe that the issue is in need of reform, they haven’t expressed any strong opinions about it yet. However on the other side, Republicans either are fiercely voicing their opinions against any immigration or like Bush, trying to sidestep the issue to court the Hispanic vote bank. But what really drives those who oppose immigration or seek harsher penalties? Is it just plain protecting-the-territory or something on the lines of say, xenophobia? Especially against the poor.
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“Motivations for Immigration Reform” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=1989] was published Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 4:13 pm by Patrix, filed under Governance, Politicking, United States, and tagged as discrimination, Governance, immigration, reforms, United States, xenophobia. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
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