Frank Sharry
Frank Sharry
Frank Sharry is the founder and executive director of America’s Voice, an immigration reform group...
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The fact that they're calling a hearing in the midst of their other priorities indicates the chairman's commitment to moving immigration reform as quickly as possible.
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A community that had essentially been trying to remain invisible suddenly concluded that their invisibility was only making them more vulnerable.
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There will be no bill passed without robust immigration enforcement.
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There's a bipartisan majority in favor of reform, and there's a president who says he's willing to sign it. And if they cannot figure out how to get from here to there, shame on them.
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It is fundamentally workable. We got a food fight instead of a bill, and I quite frankly think it's a real failure of leadership on the part of both parties.
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I think the ads are soft-peddling an extremist agenda. And what they're trying to do is draw people in with a soft pitch. But if you take a look at what their real agenda is, it is hard. It is ugly.
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Every Western industrialised nation faces the same issues of an ageing society that needs migrants, a sceptical public and some hostile media. In supporting migrants, we do face formidable challenges but I'm still optimistic; we just have to focus on bringing together the needs of our societies and the aspirations of migrant families.
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The Mexican who arrived last month is more often in direct competition with a Mexican who's been here five years than with an African-American who was born here.
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The Minutemen were offensive because they were kind of scary, but no one disagrees with border enforcement, really. It angered some people, but it angered activists. But when Congress said 'You hardworking people, we are going to call you felons,' that really broke through. You were no longer talking about policy, you were talking about who they are, that they are bad people.
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Their painstaking progress on winning Latino voters is in jeopardy because the face of the (Republican) party on this issue is Tom Tancredo. They are caught between their base and their desire to do something reasonable.
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Instead of leading the country to bipartisan comprehensive reform, ... he runs more of a danger of putting gasoline on the fire.
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In supporting migrants, we do face formidable challenges but I'm still optimistic.
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I'm disgusted that we are engaged in a blame game. We needed a bill, and we got a food fight.
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The idea that 11 million here illegally are going to sign up for a program that is going to (eventually) result in their removal is unworkable. Most won't sign up. The good news is that (Bush) continues to address the issue and he hasn't backed down from the point of view that temporary workers need to be part of it. But politically, they've made a mishmash of this issue.