Either Bush wasn’t all bad, or Obama’s a hypocrit.
Whichever side of that fence you happen to fall on, this may more than likely be some semi-good news if you happen to live in the US. The Obama administration is trying to push through a bill that was floated during the Bush days of government, designed to get tougher on immigrants. Specificly, of the illegal variety. The basics behind the legislation as it stands now would require employers to run all applicants through an online database to varify that they are, in fact, legally entitled to work in the US. Since one of the major things I hear plenty of from folks I talk to from that side of the border is the fact that there’s a large number of illegals that don’t end up actually doing a whole lot for the country, I wouldn’t be surprised if this particular piece of legislation ends up passing with very little governmental resistance. And, to the extent that it probably has a baring on what happens with immigration on this side of the border–everyone knows, after all, that the US and Canadian governments tend to be pretty arm in arm on things like this, particularly post-9/11–I’ll be keeping an eye on this just to see where it ends up stopping. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it won’t take the remaining 2.5-3 years of Obama’s term before it ends up being law.
