Thursday, January 08, 2004

Is the Bush immigration plan going to follow the path of the Bush prescription-drug plan? You know -- it's acclaimed as a political masterstroke, a devastating refutation of the charge that Bush is a stony-hearted right-wing extremist, it's deemed so undeniably compassionate that it's sure to be remembered with moist-eyed admiration by soccer moms and other sentimental swing voters come November ... and then the people who are actually affected by it begin to examine it in light of their own self-interest and, well, it turns out to be a lot less than meets the eye, a complex, cumbersome overhaul that doesn't really make very many people's lives better. I can't tell yet, but it does seem as if there's a good bit of skepticism about the new plan among immigrants already.

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