PS3beats360 said:
When laws or a tax reform is passed it is hard to remove the legislation. The legislation would have to be repealed and passed by a majority in both houses of Federal government. Obama would not be able to repeal the legislation Bush Jr. passed through as law. Governments rarely over turn taxes when they are introduced. The most vocal opponents of immigration are social conservatives. Social progressives/liberals would be more accepting and tolerant towards immigrants. Most illegal immigrants remain undetected and maintain a low profile. A strong border control and strict passport system would keep tracks on people coming and going from the country. Illegal immigration is a huge problem that brings in diseases, terrorists, fugitives, drugs, illegal arms, sex workers and other problems from overseas into another country. Quarantine is good policy.
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I think you need to study what the members of the Democrat party actually stand for:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
The next year, months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of "terrorism" that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detection of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode "constitutional and statutory due process protections" and would "authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations."
Biden himself draws parallels between his 1995 bill and its 2001 cousin. "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill," he said when the Patriot Act was being debated, according to the New Republic, which described him as "the Democratic Party's de facto spokesman on the war against terrorism."
Biden's chronology is not accurate: the bombing took place in April 1995 and his bill had been introduced in February 1995. But it's true that Biden's proposal probably helped to lay the groundwork for the Bush administration's Patriot Act.
In 1996, Biden voted to keep intact an ostensibly anti-illegal immigration bill that outlined what the Real ID Act would become almost a decade later. The bill would create a national worker identification registry; Biden voted to kill an Abraham-Feingold amendment that would have replaced the registry with stronger enforcement. According to an analysis by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the underlying bill would have required "states to place Social Security numbers on drivers licenses and to obtain fingerprints or some other form of biometric identification for licenses."
Along with most of his colleagues in the Congress -- including Sen. John McCain but not Rep. Ron Paul -- Biden voted for the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act (which was part of a larger spending bill). Obama voted for the bill containing the Real ID Act, but wasn't in the U.S. Senate in 2001 when the original Patriot Act vote took place.
So, if Joe Biden (the Vice President of the United States and long time Democrat) was creating legislation that was very similar to legislation you hate (before there was an excuse for it) what does that tell you about the Democrats or the President of the United States?
