While the defeat of S-1639, known as the immigration reform bill, in the Senate may be loudly praised by many, I hope that this is not that last that we’ll hear from our elected officials on the issue.  It is too important.As elected official after elected official proclaims time and time again, immigration is a complicated issue, which seems to imply that it requires a complicated solution – something on the level of 800 pages worth of solution.  There are also claims that the solution must be “comprehensive”, meaning that every aspect of the problem and eventuality of implementing the solution must be accounted for in a single legislative stroke.  That the solution concocted by the Senate was distilled behind closed doors and then forced into essentially an up or down vote belies the supposed complexity of the problem and the comprehensiveness of the solution.  It was, therefore, rightly defeated.And now there are claims by pundits that no...(Read Full Post)