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Immigration Bill Brings Out 'Best,' 'Worst' of America

New Republic warns 'draconian' measures will follow if compromise fails

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(Newser) – Calling the immigration bill currently fighting its way through the Senate "the best that liberals are likely to get," the New Republic's editors tepidly endorsed the legislation that would bring 12M laborers closer to US citizenship even as they condemned the implications of the bill's proposed guest-worker program.

Insisting that it’s time to act on immigration lest "nativism" grow in coming years, the center-left editors nonetheless deliver a stinging rebuke of the guest-worker proposal, which would bring foreign workers into the US without any path to permanent residence. Though the ultimate compromise is worthwhile, it comes at the cost of a program that, they write forcefully, follows the "unsavory tradition of the African slave ship, the Chinese coolie, and the Mexican bracero."

Donna Newnan protests an immigration bill and shows her displeasure with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., near Chambliss' office in Smyrna, Ga, Thursday June 7, 2007. Chambliss just as he gears up for a re-election bid next year, has found himself in the unusual position of taking strong criticism from the...
Donna Newnan protests an immigration bill and shows her displeasure with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., near Chambliss' office in Smyrna, Ga, Thursday June 7, 2007. Chambliss just as he gears up for a...   (Associated Press)
Day laborers, who identified themselves as illegal immigrants looking for work, gather around a potential employer that stopped to hire workers at a street corner where illegal immigrants gather in Dallas, Thursday, May 31, 2007. According to the men that come here daily, workers with no immigration documents come here...
Day laborers, who identified themselves as illegal immigrants looking for work, gather around a potential employer that stopped to hire workers at a street corner where illegal immigrants gather in Dallas,...   (Associated Press)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens as President Bush, not pictured, speaks about immigration reform at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens as President Bush, not pictured, speaks about immigration reform at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles...   (Associated Press)
President Bush speaks about immigration reform during an address at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Bush speaks about immigration reform during an address at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)   (Associated Press)
Abdeloihab Boujrad holds a photo of his son, Ahmedyassine Boujrad, during in an interview on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 in Herndon, Va. For more than two years Boujrad, a U.S. citizen, has fought unsuccessfully to bring his 3-year-old son Ahmedyassine home from Morocco to join him in Virginia. The...
Abdeloihab Boujrad holds a photo of his son, Ahmedyassine Boujrad, during in an interview on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 in Herndon, Va. For more than two years Boujrad, a U.S. citizen, has fought unsuccessfully...   (Associated Press)
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