On October 7, 2011 the US Senate by a unanimous voice vote and with almost no press coverage passed a resolution saying that the United States "regretted" the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.  Here is the full story from the San Francisco Chronicle.  

It is important to save the full text of this resolution because about a hundred years from now the Senate will have to pass a resolution "regretting" the building of the Wall with Mexico and the forced deportation of millions of hard working law abiding people from Latin America. 

Is it stupidity, lack of perspective or political expedience that allows our political class to only see mistakes a few generations after they make them.  

How can it be that the same politicians that passed laws that allowed the deportation of more than a million people for violating a law that is as immoral as the Chinese Exclusion Act have the chutzpah to "regret" what their predecessors did.  They are doing the same thing.

Now let me make sure I understand.  President Obama who purports to be a friend of the Hispanics in America has agreed to review the files of the 300,000 people who are in deportation proceedings and only deport those who are criminals.  In exchange he wants Latinos to support his re-election bid and to not agitate about the continuation of the employer audits that keep us from working.  

Because of barriers to migration, erected by sovereign states, most people are fated to live the lives they were born into. There is nothing they can do about it. It is the position of Rational Immigration that this is wrong and that the time has come to do something about it. People should have the Right to Migrate. Sovereign states should not be allowed to stop this migration.

The Right to Migrate will become the next great human rights struggle.

When people have the Right to Migrate the ability of governments to oppress people will decrease and the ability of people to take action to improve their lives will increase. This is a great good.

Migrant’s rights will never be secure until everybody has the Right to Migrate.

Working on the problem of rights for migrants is important but it is like working on curing the symptoms rather than the disease.

The underlying problem, the disease, is that nations have not yet recognized that there is a basic human Right to Migrate. After the Right to Migrate is accepted then the rights of migrants will be much easier to secure.

There is a debate on Immigration in Europe as well as here.  In the UK The Economist is running a two week moderated debate that has as it's proposition "This house believes that immigration is endangering European society." 

Arguing against the proposition and for immigration is Philippe Legraine author of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them.   He is making great arguments but needs public support. 

Your assignment: Go to Economist Debates: Immigration and vote against the proposition and in support of immigration.

cut and paste this link:  http://www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/210

or follow the embedded link above.

I was just studying the census data by tract in a very good presentation by the New York Times.  It shows the Hispanic population growing throughout the country but especially in the "battleground states." 

To get Latinos to vote for Democrats in 2012 he has got to at the minimum stop the audits and the fraud that is S-comm.  He can't stay on both sides of this issue and expect that Latinos will turn out to vote in 2012 in the numbers they did in 2008 no matter who the Republican nominee is.