The Bill of Love

Immigration reform, again, was the big news story today. President Trump met with Republicans and Democrats to discuss a solution for 700,000 people that might face deportation if Congress does not fix DACA. The meeting was streamed online as if it were a reality show. Don’t we already have C-SPAN?

The topic of Immigration always comes up when no other political issues need to be solved. This time a fix to DACA might be tied to a bill to avoid a government shutdown. Immigration has not be a political issue alone. The issue is raised before election for the House or the Senate or before the Presidential election. The issue is raised to either get votes from those who support immigration or to get votes from those that do not support immigration. Politicians will first take a side depending on the votes that they need. Politicians do not put the people affect by immigration reform or DACA.  

Now the issue is upfront for the next 10 days. It is an issue because of a government shutdown. Giving this issue only 10 days is all that will be given to this issue. Of course, this is the amount to time that the President and Congress believe is enough time to come up with solutions. Is the immigration issue give the same amount of time that the recently passed Tax Bill was given? I believe that it was more than 10 days. That was a “bill of love.”