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Thinking About That "Amnesty"

By Lawrence Henry on 1.9.04 @ 11:04AM

President Bush didn't have to to this at all -- but he did it for all the right reasons.

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Rush Limbaugh thinks this move represents part of the President and Karl Rove's scheme to destroy the Democratic Party by peeling off just enough of several of their fragmented constituencies - oldsters, Hispanics, blacks -- to stuff the Democrats into the black hole of a permanent minority. Within another election cycle, this theory says, the Dems will be as gone as the Whigs.

Maybe. Initial reaction, however, shows that as many legal Spanish-speaking immigrants will hate this proposal as love it. As a vote-getter, it's a wash -- probably worse, when you consider the outrage on the President's right.

No, I think this is a pressing administrative issue that President Bush simply will not ignore. Further, it will set the stage for handling another even more exigent administrative issue that is one of George W. Bush's most cherished dreams: reforming Social Security.

He did it on purpose.

He did it now, when he didn't have to.

Think.

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Social Security, Law, Immigration

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Lawrence Henry writes every week from North Andover, Massachusetts.

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