Undocumented Immigration will be the 2006 wedge issue.

What do you think will be the best replies to issues ranging from costs of processing, employer responsibility, taxpayer responsibility for social welfare, education and fair wage practices?

How do we transcend this as a discrimination smoke screen noting that first generation immigrants will traditionally have to struggle to assimilate and that the economics of past history differ considerably from our current ones?

Do we address that building a wall between the Americas may be short-sighted as Latin America might look back towards China, India and Russia as strategic and economic allies? Do we lose our credibility when we asked Eastern Europe to bring down their walls and now have a European Union who is an economic threat to our own global economic influence?

Carl
Sheeler for US Senate
www.carlsheeler.com

So I doubt it will work well as a wedge. "Nativist" Republicans are against illegal immigration and the blind eye being turned towards it by the gummint. On the other hand, "Pro-Bidness" Republicans love anything that smacks of slave or coolie labor and the importation of third world labor relations into this country and that helps drive down wages for legal labor.
Democrats are divided along different lines, but scarcely any worse than Republicans.