Texas Senators Kay Bailey Huchinson and John Cronyn are working to undermine comprehensive immigration reform and their efforts have given cover to extremist, even racist views. I'm glad they are all Republicans (at least for now). Kirk is not ignorant, he went to college in Mexico and has a degree from the London School of Economics. His fight is as much with the left as with the right, apparently.

Kirk, an Illinois Republican, made the argument on Thursday during a heated debate in the House of Representatives over whether the U.S. government should be allowed to donate condoms and other contraceptives to family planning agencies abroad that also engage in abortion. The proposal was narrowly approved by the House, over the protests of anti-abortion lawmakers who prefer sex abstinence education. The measure faces a veto threat from the White House.

But what if he's wrong? Maybe (after we fix what is broken in our immigration system) we need to expand legal immigration so that more than 650,000 green cards are distributed each year as is currently the case. How about ten times that number for ten years so that we can eliminate the backlog and get realistic about this country's graying demographic future (we will be disproportionately old, because of our low birth rate and longer life expectancy)? how about giving real meaning to family unification? how about doing what is truly needed (250,0000 H-1Bs per year, not 65,000) to sustain competitive, economic growth? how about an immediate set side of 50,000 for the foreign gay and lesbian partners of U.S. citizens to clear a "backlog" created by decades of repression and discrimination? Hillary your silence is DEAFENING.