Every passing day, the issue on the proposed comrehensive immigration bill that will allow millions of hard-working illegal immigrants is getting mixed up. This after rebellious Senate Republicans have expressed fear that the federal government will not honor its commitments to secure the nation’s borders after the bill is enacted into law. They have estimated that the government must pump in at least $15 billion to effectively enforce immigration laws at the borders. Without this money, they have expressed doubts that it could go nowhere.
This is one of the great concerns that bothers the White House. President Bush already called on the concerned legislators to help support the immigration bill. Some of the senators are just concerned that the same experience in 1986, during the term of the late President Reagan, will be replicated by giving amnesty to these illegal immigrants, leaving the borders unsecured.
Perhaps, some of those who are opposing the comprehensive immigration bill may have suffered a little amnesia. In fact, it’s not even advanced algebraic equations that are involved to solve a complicated mathematical problem, but a simple arithmetic of addition and subtraction methods. Concerned critics are imagining that billions of funds can be generated outright once the comprehensive immigration bill is put on streams. In this way, millions of illegal immigrants will be forced to get out from the underground and pay the proper fees, fines and back taxes that are required of them by the federal government. It is hard to estimate right now how much could be generated once the bill is approved. But this could surely run to more than the US$15 billion mark that the rebellious Senators are harking about.
On the contrary, the question right now is focused on whether the bill’s opponents are serious or not? Or are they just trying to resort to dilly-dallying tactics whose intention is to stall forever the honest wishes of President Bush to untangle the knots that surround the immigration system in the country.