In the presidential primaries we have two candidates vying for the Adolf Eichmann Mass Relocation Award. For the Democrats, it is Joe Biden with his plan to partition Iraq into three pieces and physically separate the Sunnis and Shi’ites, Arabs and Kurds. Listening to Scranton Joey prattle on on the merits of that plan is the definition of the banality of evil. For the Republicans, the striver is Mike Huckabee.
In a major reversal, Mike Huckabee announced a new immigration plan that calls for the 11-12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States to leave the country in 120 days. Once back in their home countries they could then apply for legal entry to the country. While this may on the surface sound reasonable, given the numbers waiting to get into the country, it would be years before they could return, even if they wanted to. So no matter how they dress it up it is a call for the immediately expulsion of tens of millions of people living and working here in the United States each day.
No matter how you feel about the morality of the plan, or its practicality, it is amazing that the man who may win the GOP nomination is calling for the forced expulsion of 5 percent of the current American workforce. The economic and societal chaos these kinds of plans would create is almost unimaginable. After his reasonable approach to the issue in the last GOP debate, this new plan is yet more evidence of the incredible inability of today’s GOP to put pragmatic progress before politics.
Huckabee’s the new frontrunner folks. Our country is very ill.
