Because of the recent election victory of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, many are worrying about the future of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). In the new senator’s website, Brown states the he opposes providing driver’s licenses and in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.Comprehensive Immigration Reform needs bi-partisan support for its enactment. It is truth that now there is one less democrat in the Senate and one more republican, but the legislation’s challenge to get republicans in favor is really still the same. It is going to be difficult but not impossible to see which secret combination will be the one that gets some republicans in favor of this legislation, but once it happens, it will most likely work for a couple more.
The key strategy right now to ensure the success of CIR is to stop letting the ones who oppose it make a big deal about it, which is trying to falsely change the public perspective on the reality of how the majority of Americans still support the legislation.
Scott Brown’s victory had to do a lot with the fact that Massachusetts has already a good health care system, which is why many of its residents oppose it. Anyhow a recent statement from a well-known anti-immigrant organization, the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR), argues that Brown’s win showed that it would be "suicide" for any politician to support certain reforms.
Anyhow CIR doesn’t only still have strong support but a recent survey from Benenson Strategy Group reveals that many Republican voters are backing the legislation. The waters are still clean and we just need to keep swimming, the sharks are not real.
Dream Positive, Alonso Chehade