Immigration Has Stalemated Over the

¶ … immigration has stalemated over the last few years but it is crucial that we get it started again if only to help the progressive e agenda. Immigrants (in this context largely Latinos) have achieved a huge amount of political clout which may impact the government in enormous ways. Indeed, Obama has signaled support for positive immigration reform, and this -- the article argues will be reciprocally positive -- not only for immigrants themselves, but also for Obama's progressive government and for the progressive policies that he seeks to launch.

Strong points of the article that convinced me that the author had a basis for his argument were the fact that he pointed to facts. For instance, he showed that Obama had introduced several personnel in his government who showed a strong inclination for affirmative immigration reform including most notably Former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano who showed strong support on "the need to reform our immigration laws in a comprehensive manner." (p.13). Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Attorney General Eric Holder are good signs too.

One of the first bills passed in congress was the State Children's Health Insurance Program {SCHIP), one that peripherally involved immigrants by reducing the wait time of children of immigrants for health relief. Hard-liners tried to derail the bill; Obama signed it. The weak part of the argument was that I found that Noorani and Belanger (2009) generalized.

He seemed to show subjectivity and bias in his rancor when for instance he complains that "Immigration hard-liners will use the hook of immigration enforcement in an effort to derail just about anything progressive tilt the Congressional leadership tries to accomplish" (ibid.) Not all immigration hardliners are like that; their reasons may not be because of their opposition to immigration; and the argument would have been more convincing had Noorani and Belanger (2009) stated the specific policies that hardliners resent and the reasons for their disproval.

The succeeding sentences continue to malign the so-called hardliners turning Noorani and Belanger (2009)'s otherwise level-headed argument.